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CATALOGUE 
 
 O F 
 
 ENGRAVERS, 
 
 Who have been born or refided in 
 
 ENGLAND-, 
 
 DIGESTED BY 
 
 Mr. HORACE WALPOLE 
 
 From the MSS. of 
 
 Mr. GEORGE VERTUE; 
 
 To which is added 
 
 An ACCOUNT of the LIFE and WORKS 
 
 of the latter. 
 
 The SECOND EDITION. 
 
 And Art refiefied Images to Art. Pope. 
 
 ST RAW BERRY-HILL: 
 PRINTED in the YEAR MDCCLXV. 
 
Direction to the Binder. 
 
 This volume fhould not be lettered as the fourth, 
 but as a detached piece; another volume of the 
 Painters being intended, which will compleat the 
 work. 
 
CATALOGUE 
 
 O F 
 
 ENGRAVERS. 
 
 WH E N the monarchs of Egypt erected thofe ftupendous 
 maffes, the pyramids, for no other ufe but to record their 
 names, they little fulpe<5ted that a weed growing by the 
 Nile would one day be converted into more durable regifters of fame, 
 than quarries of marble and granite. Yet when paper had been in- 
 vented, what ages rolled away before it was deftined to its beft fer- 
 vice ! It is equally amufing to obferve what obvious arts efcape our 
 touch, and how quickly various channels are deduced from a fource 
 when once opened. This was the cafe of the prefs : printing was 
 not difcovered till about the year 1430 : in thirty years more it was 
 applied to the multiplication of drawings. Authors had fcarce feen 
 that facility of difperfing their works, before painters received an 
 
 A almoft. 
 
2 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 ahnofl equal * advantage. To each was endlefs fame in a manner 
 eniured, if they had merit to challenge it. "With regard to prints, the 
 new difcovery affociated the profeflbrs in fome degree with the great 
 mafters whole works they copied. The intimate connection between 
 painters and engravers makes fome account of the latter a kind of 
 neceffary fupplement to the hiftory of the former. But if th;s coun- 
 try has not produced many men of genius in the nobler branch, it has 
 been ftill more deficient in excellent engravers. Mr. Vertue had been 
 alike induftrious in hunting after monuments of the latter profeffion ; 
 he was of it himfelf; but as the artifts were lefs illuftrious, his labour 
 was by far more unfuccefsful. 'Till the arrival of Hollar the art of 
 engraving was in England almoft confined to portraits. Vertue 
 thought what was produced here before the reign of king James, of 
 fo little confequence, that in a fketch which he had made for a begin- 
 ning, he profeffedly dates his account from the year 1600. If I take 
 it up earlier, it is merely to give a compleat hiftory, which will be 
 comprehended in few lines, and the materials for which I have chiefly 
 gathered from his papers, and from the Typographical Antiquities 
 of Mr. f Ames. 
 
 Mr. 
 
 * Want of colouring is the capital deficience of prints; yet even this feems 
 attainable. Monfieur le Blon, who will be mentioned hereafter, invented co- 
 loured prints, and did enough to (how the feafibility. His difcovery was neglect- 
 ed, as the revival of encauftic painting has been lately ; though the advantages 
 of each art are fo obvious and fo defirable. 
 
 f Jofeph Ames, fecretary of the Society of Antiquaries, was originally a fhip- 
 chandlcr in Wapping. Late in his life he took to the ftudy of antiquities, and 
 befides his quarto volume, containing accounts of our earlieft printers and their 
 works, he publifhed a lift in duodecimo of Englifh heads, engraved anu mezzo- 
 tinto, and drew up the Parentalia from Mr. Wren's papers. He died in 1759. 
 His library and prints were fold by auction in the following year. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 3 
 
 Mr. Evelyn fays * the art of engraving, and working off from, 
 plates of copper did not appear 'till about the year 1490. That is, 
 it was not brought to perfection from the hints gathered from typo- 
 graphy : Yet it is certain that in 1460 Mafo Finiguerra, a goldfmith 
 of Florence, by an accident that might have given birth to the rolling- 
 prefs, without the antecedent difcovery'of printing, did actually light 
 upon the method of taking off ftamps from an engraved plate, 
 Calling a piece of fuch plate into melted brimftone, he oblerved that 
 the exact impreffion of the engraving was left upon the furface of the 
 cold brimftone, marked by lines of black. He repeated the experi- 
 ment on moiftened paper, rolling it gentley with a roller. It fucceeded. 
 He communicated the difcovery to Baccio Baldini, of his own profef- 
 fion and city. The latter purfued the invention with fuccefs, and en- 
 graved feveral plates from drawings of Sandro Boticello, which being 
 feen by Andrea Mantegna, he not only aflifted Baldini with defigns, 
 but cultivated the new art himfelf. It had not long been in vogue 
 before Hugo da Carpi tried the fame experiment with wood, and 
 even added a variety of tints by ufing different ftamps for the grada- 
 tions of lights and lhades ; a method revived here fome years ago with 
 much fuccefs by Kirkall, and fince at Venice by Jackfon -, though 
 very imperfectly. 
 
 From Italy Engraving foon travelled into Flanders, where it was 
 firft practiced by one Martin of Antwerp. He was followed by 
 Albert Durer, who carried the art to a great height, confidering how 
 bad the tafte was of the age and country in which he lived. His fide- 
 lity to what he faw was at once his fame and misfortune -, he was 
 happy in copying nature, but it was nature dilguifed and hid under 
 
 ungrace- 
 * Sculptura p. 35. 
 
4 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 ungraceful forms. With neither choice of fubjects or beauty, his 
 induftry gave merit even to uglinefs and abfurdity. Confining his 
 labours almoft wholly to religious and legendary hiftories, he turned 
 the Teftament into the hiftory of a Flemifh village ; the habits of 
 Herod, Pilate, Jofeph, &c. their dwellings, their utenfils and their 
 cuftoms, were all gothic and European ; his virgin Mary was the 
 heroine of a Kermis. Lucas of Leyden imitated him in all his faults 
 and was ftill more burlefque in his reprefentations. It was not till 
 Raphael had formed Marc Antonio, that engraving placed itlelf with 
 dignity by the fide of painting. 
 
 When the art reached England does not appear. It is a notorious 
 blunder in Chambers *, to fay that it was firft brought from Antwerp 
 by Speed in the reign of James I. In fome degree we had it almoft 
 as foon as printing •, the printers themfelves ufing fmall plates for tneir 
 devices and rebus's : Caxton's Golden -f- Legend has in the beginning 
 a groupe of faints, and many other cuts difperfed through the body of 
 the work. It was printed in 1483. The fecond edition 01 his game 
 at Chefs had cuts too. So has his Le Morte Arthur. Wynkvn de 
 Worde, Caxton's fucceffor, prefixed to his edition of the Statutes in 
 the fixth year of Henry VII. a plate with the king's arms, crefts, &c. 
 a copy of which is given, in the life of Wynkyn, by Mr. Ames in his 
 Typographical Antiquities, p. 79. The fame printer exhibited 
 feveral books adorned with cuts, fome of which are particularly defcii- 
 bed by his Biographer, in pages 87, S8, 89, & fequentibus. 
 
 The fubfequent printers continued to ornament their books with 
 wooden cuts. One confiderable work, publifhed by John Raftell, was 
 
 diftin- 
 * Dictionary. Edit, of 1728. Art. Priming. 
 t -^mes, p. 25- 
 
Catalogue cf Engravers. 5 
 
 diftinguifhed by prims of uncommon mcric for that age. It was 
 called The Psjiyme of the People, and by biihop Nicholfon in his 
 Historical Library, RofeWs Chronicle. This fcarce book, of a very 
 large fize, I faw at the auction of Mr. Ames's library ; it had many 
 cuts, eighteen of which were in great folio, reprefenting the kings of 
 England, fo well defigned and boldly executed as to be attributed to 
 Holbein, though I think they were not of his hand. I fhall mention 
 but one more book with wooden cuts (though feveral are recorded by 
 Ames). It is Grafton's Chronicle *, printed in 1569, and contain- 
 ing many heads, as of William the Conqueror, Henry VIII. and 
 queen Elizabeth, &c. Yet though even portraits were ufed in books, 
 I find no trace of angle prints being wrought off in that age. Thofe 
 which I have mentioned in a -f- former volume as compofing part of 
 the collection of Henry VIII, were probably the productions of 
 foreign artifts. The firft book that appeared with cuts from copper- 
 plates, at leaft the firit, that fo induftrious an enquirer as Mr. Ames J 
 had obferved, was, " The Birth of Mankind, otherwyfe called, The 
 Woman's Book," dedicated to queen Catherine and publifhed by 
 Thomas Raynalde in 1540, with many fmall copper cuts, but to thefe 
 no name was affixed. The earlieft engraver that occurs was 
 
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 THOMAS GEMINUS, or GEMINIE, 
 
 7 As he calls himfelf in a title-page which I fhall mention 
 1545 ( v ° 
 
 S prefently. The little that is known of him is collected from 
 his works. Of thefe was 
 
 B Thomas 
 
 * Ames, p. 204. 
 
 f Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 61, 
 J P. 219. 
 
6 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 Thomas Gemini Lyfienfis compendiofa tonus Anatome s delineaio, 
 sere exarata, folio 1545. " Thefe plates, fays Ames *, are fome of 
 the firft rowling-prefs printing in England." This was a new edition 
 of Vefalius's Anatomy, which was firft publifhed at Padua in 154.2 
 with large wooden cuts, which cuts Geminus imitated on copper- 
 plates •, though, fays Vertue, " I queftion whether more than the 
 title-page, to which he has put his name, was the work of Geminus-, 
 the moft and beft part of the graved figures were probably copied 
 from the wooden cuts in Vefalius by a better hand." The firft 
 edition was dedicated to Henry VIII. Geminus afterwards publifhed 
 a tranflation by Nicholas Udal of the fame work in 1552, and dedi- 
 cated it to Edward VI. The tranflutor in his preface fays, " Accepte 
 therefore, jentill reader, this Traclife of Anatomie, thankfully inter- 
 preting the labours of Thomas Gemini, the workman. He, that 
 with his great charge, watch and travayle hath fet out thefe figures in 
 pourtrature, will moft willingly be amended, or better perfected of 
 his own workmanfhip, if admonifhed." Vertue having quoted this 
 paffage, owns, that the writing to all thefe plates was lurely graved 
 by Geminie, and probably fome parts or members of the bodies. 
 We do not contend for the excellence of Geminie's performances. It 
 is fufficient that we have afcertained fo early an engraver in England. 
 Vertue adds, that Geminie publifhed another fmall work, with cop- 
 per cuts, relating to midwifry two years before. I do not know 
 whether he means two years before the firft or the fecond of his edi- 
 tions of Vefalius. It is certain that Ames does not fpecify fuch a 
 work, though in page 304, he acknowledges that there are books 
 printed by Geminie of an earlier date than any he had feen ; for 
 
 Gemi- 
 * Ames, p. 218. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers . 7 
 
 Geminie was not only an engraver but a printer ; and dwelled in 
 Blackfriars. Thence he publifhed, a Prognoftication, &c. relating 
 to the weather, the Phenomena of the Heavens, &c. with a number 
 of cuts. Imprinted, by ^Thomas Geminie, quarto, and another edition 
 of his Anatomy in 1559, dedicated to queen Elizabeth. 
 
 So congenial an art as Engraving, when once difcovered, could 
 not fail to fpread in an age of literature. That accomplished prelate, 
 archbifhop Parker, who thought that whatever tended to enlighten 
 and civilize the human mind, was within his province, feems to 
 have been the moft confpicuous patron of the arts in the reign of 
 Elizabeth. I have mentioned before * that he employed in his palace 
 at Lambeth a painter and two or three engravers. Of thefe the 
 chief was 
 
 REMIGIUS HOGENBERGH, 
 
 Of whom I can give the reader no farther information, than what he 
 has received already, that Hogenbergh twice engraved the arch- 
 bifhop's head, which Vertue thought was the firft portrait engraved 
 in England-, and a genealogy of the kings of England. Remi- 
 gius had a brother, who either was in England or worked for 
 Englishmen, his name 
 
 o 
 
 FRANCIS HOGENBERGH; 
 
 1 By his hand is extant a print of queen Mary I, dated 1 $5$ ; 
 
 i if this was executed in her reign, it was antecedent to that of 
 
 Parker : but it might not be done here, or might be performed after 
 
 her 
 * Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 176. 
 
8 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 herdeith, and allude only to her rera. Under it is written, Veritas 
 Temporis Filia. In the let of Saxton's m3ps he engraved thofe of 
 Giul and Belgium. Of his works abroad Vertue had feen views in 
 * Braun's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, printed at Cologn in 1572, in 
 conjunction with Simon Novellani and George Hoefnagle; and others- 
 in Abraham Ortelias's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, in which he wis 
 affifted by Ferdinand and Ambrofe Arfen, Antwerpire 1570. The 
 map of England in this collection was the work of Humphrey Lhuyd 
 of Denbighshire, as that of Spain was of Thomas Geminus, whom 
 I have already mentioned. Engraving was on no contemptible foot 
 rn England when we had profeflbrs f worthy of being employed to 
 adorn Flemim editions ; Flanders was at that time a capital theatre 
 of arts and learning. 
 
 'o - 
 
 Dr. WILLIAM C U N Y N G H A M, 
 
 7 A phyfician of Norwich, was aifo an author and engraver. 
 1559 ( . r ' ' c _ 
 
 S In his Cofmographical Glafs, a fine copy of which is defcribed 
 
 by 
 
 * This expenfive work confilts of two very large and thick folios; the firft 
 containing 178 plans and views of towns, the fecond 135. They are drawn 
 and engraved by Francis and Abraham Hogenbergh, Hoefnagle and others, par- 
 ticularly Henry Stenwick. The author ftyles himfelf both Bruin and Braun. It 
 is a work of uncommon labour, but without method, and fome of the cities are 
 repeated. In this collection is the curious print of Nonfuch ; and in the laft 
 plate but two of the firft volume is a view of the lake Averno ; Ortelius and G. 
 Hoefnagle are (landing by the lake, and from feeing birds fwimming on it, hunc 
 locum non effe aornon advertentes. 
 
 f Ortelius himfelf commends the Englifh engravers, and befides thofe I have 
 fpecified, he names Antony Jenkenfon, who flourifhed in 1562, and Robert 
 Leeth, a man fkillfull in taking a plot of a country. See Ames 3 p. 540. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 9 
 
 by Ames *, are many cuts and a large map of Norwich, fome of the 
 plates engraved by the doctor's own hand. It was printed in folio in 
 1559, and dedicated to the lord Robert Dudley, afterwards the well- 
 known earl of Leicefter. 
 
 -> 1 
 
 RALPH AGGAS 
 
 Was a furveyor, and related to Edward Aggas a printer -f . 
 Lalph publifhed what I fhould have concluded a book, as he 
 called it Celeberrimas Oxonienfis Academiae, &c. elegans fimul & 
 accurata defcriptio ; but Ames, who is not very explicit, feems to 
 fpeak of it as a map, laying it was three feet by four ; and he adds 
 that Cambridge was done about the fame time, that is, in 1578. 
 Aggas made a map of Dunwich in 1589, which I have mentioned J, 
 and a large plan and view of London, which was re-engraved by 
 Vertue, and of which in one of his MSS. he gives the following 
 account •, 
 
 " A plan and view of London, with the river Thames and adjacent 
 parts, being the moft ancient profpect in print. This was reported to 
 have been done in Henry 8, or king Edward 6th's time; but from fe- 
 veral circumftances it appears to be done early in the beginning of 
 queen Elizabeth's reign, about 1560 ; being cut in feveral blocks of 
 wood. The prints thereof being now of the greateft fcarcity, no 
 copies perhaps preferved, being put up againft walls in houfes, there- 
 fore in length of time all decayed or loft. Civitas Londinum. Proba- 
 
 C bly 
 
 * lb. p- 237. 
 
 f Ames, p. 389. 
 
 J Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 169. 
 
io Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 bly this was publilhed by Ralph Aggas, ashehimfelf mentions in that 
 plan of Oxford done after this was begun. But it mult be obferved 
 that this very impreffion is a fecond publication, with the date 1618, 
 and that there are feveral alterations from the firft in this ; and parti- 
 cularly, inftead of the arms as queen Elizabeth bore them, thofe of 
 king James I. are (England, France and Scotland) put in the place of 
 them. And in the firft have been explanations of the remarkable 
 places in the city and fuburbs, as may be obferved in many places by 
 letters of reference. The length of this printed plan, 6 feet 3 inches, 
 by 2 ftet 4 inches, contained in fix fheets and two half fheets, 1 bdieve 
 the full extent in length, but I apprehend the notes of explanation 
 were at bottom printed on flips of paper to be added." Vertu? then 
 fpecifies buildings or abfence of buildings which affix this (Ian to die 
 sra in which he concludes it printed origin ill v •, as the water-gate at 
 the palace of Weftminfter, called the Queen 's- bridge-, Northumberland- 
 houle wanting, which was not erected in 1560, but was before 161 8. 
 Paget-place, fo called in 1563, &c. Vertue had taken much pains to 
 afcertain the ancient extent of London, and the fcite of its feveral 
 larger edifices at various periods. Among his papers I find many 
 traces relating to this matter. Such a fubject, extended by hiftoric 
 illuftrations, would be very amufing. Les Anecdotes des Rul.s de 
 Paris, is a pattern for a work of that kind ; but not the laft edition ; 
 for the author, conducted by the clue of his materials into the ancient 
 hiftories of France and England, grew fo interefted in thofe obfelete 
 quarrels, that he tacked to an antiquarian difcuffion a ridiculous in- 
 vective againft the Englifh and their hiftorians. After authenticating 
 whatever has pafied of memorable in each ftreet of Paris, he labours 
 to over-turn all that happened at Poictiers and Creffy. Hiftorian of 
 gnats, he quarrels with camels. 
 
 HUMPHRY 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 1 1 
 
 HUMPHRY COLE, 
 
 i A goldfmith, and probably brother of Peter Cole, a painter 
 i mentioned by Meres in his Wit's Commonwealth, and in the 
 firft volume of thefe Anecdotes* •, I conclude fo, as Humphry en- 
 graved a map to a folio bible, which he fet forth in 1572, and fron- 
 tifpieces with queen Elizabeth, the earl of Leicefter as Jofhua, and lord 
 Burleigh as David. Humphry Cole, as he fays himielf -f-, was born 
 in the north of England, and pertayned to the Mint in the Tower 1 572. 
 I fuopofe he was one of the engravers that pertayned to archbifhop 
 Parker, for this edition was called Matthew Parker's Bible. I hope 
 the flattery to the favorites was the incenie of the engraver ! 
 
 JOHN BETTES, 
 
 Brother of Thomas Bettes, the painter J, was himfelf both painter 
 and engraver. Meres in the paffage above quoted is my authority 
 for the firft ; Fox in his Ecclefiaftical Hiftory tells us the fecond, 
 naming John Bettes as the performer of a pedigree and fome vineats 
 (vignettes) for Hall's Chronicle, and fpeaking of Bettes in 157635 
 then dead ||. In the fame place is mentioned one Tyrral, of whom I 
 find no other account, nor of Cure, recorded by Meres ; nor much 
 more of Chriftopher Switzer §, but that he ufed to execute wooden 
 cuts for books about the time of archbifhop Parker. 
 
 WILLIAM 
 
 * P. i7r. 
 
 f Ames, 255. 
 
 % See Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 171. 
 y Ames, p. 197, in the note. 
 
 § In the Harleian Library was a fet of wooden cuts reprefenting the broad 
 feals of England from the conqueft to James I. inclufive, neatly executed. 
 
 Vertue 
 
12 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 WILLIAM ROGERS, 
 
 Is another engraver in Meres's recapitulation of Englifh artifts. He 
 engraved a title-page toLinfchoten's Voyages to the Eaft-indies ; and 
 probably the cuts to Plugh Broughton's Conlent of Scriptures, which 
 have this mark V\ll, and which Vertue fays have been reckoned the 
 firft graved plates done in England. But this is a miftake; for 
 Broughton's book was not printed till 1600 *. He alfo did heads of 
 CK Elizabeth, of the earls of Effex and Cumberland, of Sir John 
 Harrington in the title plate of his Orlando Furiofo, of JohnGerrard 
 furgeon, and a fiontifpiece with four fmall heads. One Cure is alfo 
 mentioned by Meres as an excellent engraver, but I find no other 
 account of him, nor ever met with any of his works. Laurence 
 Johnlon engraved feveral heads in the Turkifli hiftory in folio, 1603. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER SAXTON, 
 
 o 1 To whom we are obliged for the firft maps of counties, 
 i lived at Tingley near Leeds in Yorkfhire, and was iervant 
 
 to 
 Vertue fays this was thefole impreflion he had feen, and believed that they were 
 cut by Chr. Switzer, and that thefe plates were copied by Hollar for Sandford. 
 Switzer alio cut the coins and feals in Speed's hiftory of Great-Britain 1614, 
 from the originals in the Cottonian colleaion. Speed calls him, the moft ex- 
 quifite and curious hand of that age. He probably engraved the botanic figures 
 for Lobel's Obfervations, and the plates for Parkinfon'sParadifu- terreftris 1629. 
 Chr. Switzer's works have been fometimes confounded with his fon's, who was 
 of both his names. 
 
 * V. Ames, 429, 
 
a fa— im m mn . • 
 
 HOEFNA.G-L.-E, 
 
Catalogue 'of Engravers. 1 3, 
 
 to Thomas * Sekeford, efq ; matter of Requefts, and matter of the 
 Court of Wards. By the encouragement and at the expence of this 
 gentleman, Saxton undertook and publifhed a compleat kt of maps of 
 the counties of England and Wales, many of which he engraved him- 
 felf, and was afiifted in others by Remigius Hogenbergh, whom I 
 have mentioned, by Nicholas Reynold, by fome foreigners, and by 
 Aucmftine Ryther-f-, who made fome of the maps of the Spanitti in- 
 vafion, and who kept a fhop near Leaden-hall, and procured a tranf- 
 lation of Petruccio Ubaldini's Difcourfe, which he dedicated to the 
 lord admiral Howard in 1590. The county-maps, dedicated to the 
 queen, and adorned with the royal arms, and thole of the promoter, 
 matter Sekeford, were publifhed by Saxton in 1579-, the dates on 
 different plates J fhowing that the labour of fix years, that is from 
 1574, to 1579, both included, had been beftowed on them. Saxton 
 is commended by Camden and Thorefby, the latter of whom § calls 
 his map of Yorkfhire the beft that ever was made of that county. This 
 rare map was three feet wide ; at one corner was a view of York ; at 
 another, of Hull. AuguftineRyther had the chief hand in engraving it. 
 
 GEORGE HOEFNAGLE 
 
 Of Antwerp, was probably in England, mention being made || of a 
 map of Brittol by him, and he certainly engraved a large plate of 
 
 D Nonfuch. 
 
 * His portrait may be feen in Vertue's print of the Court of Wards. 
 
 + Ames, p. 541, note. 
 
 % See the particulars in Ames, p. 541, 542. He has alfo given at length 
 the patent obtained by Mr. Sekeford. 
 
 § Ducat. Leod. p. 165, 195. 
 ' |1 Ames, p. 538. 
 
14 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 Nonfuch. He was one of the engravers employed by Ortelius. Vert ne 
 fays that Mr. Green fliowed to the fociety of Antiquaries a quarto 
 containing about fifty copper-plates, engraved in 1592 by James 
 Hoefnagle of Francfort, aged then feventeen, from drawings by his 
 father George, of beads, birds, flowers, infects, &c. * 
 
 THEODORE DE BRIE, 
 
 t Was, as he informs us on his plates to Boiffard's Roman 
 
 b l Antiquities, a native of Liege and a citizen of Franckfort. 
 He engraved the plates for the firft four volumes of that work, the 
 laft of which was compleated in 1601 and 1602, after his death, by 
 his fons Theodore and Ifrael, whom he brought up to his own bufi- 
 nefs. His own head and Boiflard's he has prefixed to fome of the 
 volumes. The firfl: Englifh work that I find with his name was the 
 funeral proceflion of Sir Philip Sidney, of which I have given an ac- 
 count before -j-, and which was exprefledly engraved in London. 
 The next was £ a title-page with the arms of the lord-keeper Hatton 
 at large, to Wagenar's Mariner's Mirrour, the fecond part, pub- 
 lished by Antony Afhley in 1588. The laft does great honour to De 
 Brie. He cut the curious plates, defcribing the manners and fafhions 
 of the Virginians in the brief and true Report of the Newfoundland 
 of Virginia, publifhed by § Thomas Hariot, fervant of Sir Walter 
 
 Raleigh, 
 
 * One Cock, a Dutchman, graved an oval portrait of the queen of Scots 
 in 1559, and from a genuine "picture, but it is not clear that he ever was in 
 England. 
 
 + Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 179. 
 
 t I find this in Vertue's MSS. 
 
 § Hariot was afterwards a dependent of the earl of Northumberland, and one 
 of the iuppofed magi who kept him company in the Tower. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers, 15 
 
 Raleigh, and employed by him in the difcovery. This work was 
 printed at Francfort by J. Wechelius in 1590. The cuts were done 
 at DeBrie's own expence from drawings of J. White, who was fent 
 thither for that purpofe. Picart has copied them in his Religious 
 Ceremonies of all Nations ; as Speed from drawings of the fame per- 
 fon borrowed the frontifpiece of his folio edition in 1611*. Theo- 
 dore the father engraved the plates to the latin Narrative of the Cru- 
 elties of the Spaniards in America, publifhed in 1598. About the 
 fame time appeared De Brie's great work., intituled, Defcriptio Indian 
 Orientalis & Occidentalis, 19 parts, 5 vol. folio. This is done 
 much in the fame manner with Hariot's Account of Virginia. Theo- 
 dore the younger engraved the heads for BouTard's Collection of emi~ 
 nent Perions. 
 
 ROBERT ADAMS 
 
 Befides the plates which I have mentioned in the firfl volume of this 
 work, p. 174. drew and engraved reprefentations of the feveral ac- 
 tions while the Spanifli Armada was on the Britifh coafts. Thefe 
 charts were publifhed by Auguftine Ryther 1589. 
 
 I have now cleared my way to the sera from whence Vertue intended 
 to date his account of our engravers •, that is, from the laft years of 
 Elizabeth. Yet fo unable had he been to amafs materials fufficient to 
 be moulded into a hiftory, thatl find only brief notes till we approach 
 to modern times. The fatisfaction therefore that I cannot give 
 to the antiquary, muft be a little compenfated by afiifting collectors. 
 In default of Anecdotes, I Ihall form fome, however imperfect, lifts of 
 
 the 
 * Ames, p. 563, 
 
1 6 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 the works performed by the elder mafters. Thefe will be chiefly fup- 
 plied from my own collection and from * Ames's printed catalogue 
 of Englifh heads, and may be increafed hereafter by curious perfons, 
 who will be affifted by this flcetch to compile a more extenfive and 
 compleat hiftory of the art in England. 
 
 ^REGINALD ELSTRACKE, 
 
 "Whofe works are more fcarce than valuable, flourifhed under Eliza- 
 beth and her fucceflbr, in whofe reign he probably died. His firlr. 
 print according to the date is the portrait of 
 
 Sir Philip Sidney, done probably foon after his death. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, done after her death. 
 
 The Black Prince in a oval, as are mod of the following, 
 
 Richard Whittington, lord mayor, and his cat. 
 
 Gervale Babington bifhop of Worcefler, ast, fua; 59, with four latin 
 verfes, and this motto, Virtus Dei in inflrmitate. 
 
 Sir Julius Casfar, knight, mafter of the rolls j one of his beft works. 
 
 Heny V. titles in Latin. 
 
 Sir Thomas More j over his head, Difce mori mundo, vivere difce 
 Deo. 
 
 Thomas Sutton founder of the Charter-houfe ; done after his death, 
 161 1, which fhows that Elftracke was then living. 
 
 Edmund lord Sheffield, prefident of the North. 
 
 Thomas 
 * As they are fully defcribed there and may be found alphabetically, I {hall 
 
 refer the reader thither for many of thofe prints of which I give no account, that 
 
 I may not fwell this lift unneceflarily. 
 
 t He generally wrote his name, Renold. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers, 1 7 
 
 Thomas Howard, earl of Suffolk, lord Treafurer of England. 
 
 Robert, 2d. earl of EfTex. 
 
 Anne Boleyn. 
 
 John Harrington baron of Exton. 
 
 William Perkins. 
 
 Lord Darnley and queen Mary, whole lengths in one plate. 
 
 Padefha ShafTallem, the great mogul. 
 
 Philip III. 
 
 Chnftian IV. 
 
 Sigiimond Battori. 
 
 The archdukes Albert and Ifabella, two plates. 
 
 William Knollis vifcount Wallingford. 
 
 Cardinal Wolfey. 
 
 Henry prince of Wales. 
 
 Antonio de Dominis. 
 
 Ladiflaus king of Poland ; in Fowler's Troubles of Sweden. 
 
 John Oden Barnevelt lord of Barkley. 
 
 Tide-plate to Bafiliologia. 
 
 Another ro Mills's Catalogue of Honour. 
 
 Time's Srorehoufe, 1 61 9. 
 
 Edward IV. king of England with devices, &c. and are to be fold 
 by Thomas Geele at the dagger in Lombard-ftreet. As there is no 
 date to this print, it is uncertain in what year it was done. Vertue in 
 one of his MSS. fays, that Thomas Hinde, in 1537, was the firft 
 ptintfeller in London •, in another place he affigns that rank to George 
 Humble-, he no where mentions Geele. It is certain that the name of 
 George Humble is frequently found on prints of the time of Elizabeth, 
 
 ' E in 
 
1 8 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 in conjunction with John Sudbury-, they lived in Pope's-head-alley ; 
 but Hinde and Geele were moll probably their predeceffors. 
 
 Toby Matthews archbifhop of York, eight Latin verfes, R. E. 
 fculpf. He. Holland excudit. are to be fold by George Humble in 
 Pope's-head-alley. 
 
 Mary queen of Scots. Jacobi Magna; Britann. regis mater. She 
 is abundantly drefTed, and has the crown, fcepter, globe and arms. 
 Sold by Compton Holland, who is fometimes the vender of prints ; 
 iometimes takes them off, excudit*. And once atleaft engraved him- 
 felf. I have a laboured print by him of Robert earl of EfTex, with 
 his arms, creft and tides. The print of Mary is much fupenor to 
 many of the preceeding. 
 
 Henry Holland, who publifhed the -f Heroologia Anglicana was 
 eldeft Ion of Philemon Holland, and I fuppofe brother of this Comp- 
 ton Holland. In 1613 he travelled into the Palatinate with John 
 lord Harrington. Befides the Heroologia, he publifhed Monumenta 
 fepulcralia Ecclefije Sti Pauli Lond. quarto-, and a volume contain- 
 ing the heads of the kings of England from the conqueft to the year 
 1618. Thefe plates, fays Vertue, are the fame with thole in Mar- 
 tin's Chronicle except the title-page, and the print of William I. 
 
 FRANCIS DELARAM 
 
 Worked at the fame time with Elftracke, and in the fame manner, 
 but better and neater-, and feems to have furvived him. His plates are 
 
 William 
 * G. Humble was alfo a painter. Among Ames's heads, p. 145, is one of 
 Speed, D. Georgius Humble p. G. Savery fc. 
 
 f The engraver of thofe prints has not fef his name to them. As they are in 
 3 more maflerly and free ftyle than cuts done in England at that time, it is pro- 
 bable 
 
Catalogue of Engravers* 19. 
 
 William Somers, king Heneryes jefter (8th.) from Holbein, are to 
 to be fold by Thomas Jenner * at the whitbeare in Cornewell. A 
 whole length. Long tunic, H. K. on his breaft, a chain, and a horn 
 in his hand. Behind him buildings and boys playing. Eight Englifh 
 verfes. 
 
 Henry V1IL 
 
 Queen Mary I. in oval frame. 
 
 Sir Thomas Grefham, ditto, with gloves in his hand, large purfe to 
 his girdle. Francifco Delaram fculpfit. are to be fold by Jo. Sudbu. 
 and G. Humble. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, after her death, with a long infcription. "V. Ames, 
 p. 62. 
 
 James I. 
 
 Henry prince of Wales, fon of James I. in the robes of the garter, 
 with a truncheon. 
 
 James Montagu, biihop of Winchefter, 161 7, are to be fold by 
 P. Stent. 
 
 Arthurus Severus Toole Nonefuch, aetatis 80, 161 8. An old man 
 with a large beard, a fceptre in his hand with eleven crowns upon it. 
 
 Eight 
 bable that Holland carried over the drawings with him, and had them executed 
 abroad; and this will be confirmed by a circumftance I mall mention in the 
 article of Crifpin Pafk. 
 
 * Jenner attempted the art himfelf with no bad fuccefs. I have a fmall print 
 by him of Sir William Wadd [or WaadJ lieutenant of the Tower. Sir Wil- 
 liam was fon of Sir Armigel Wadd of Yorkfhire, clerk of the council to Henry 
 VIII. and Edward VI. and author of a book of travels. The fon was clerk of 
 die council to Elizabeth, who difpatched him to Spain to excufe her fendino- 
 .away their minifter Mendoza, who had been dealing in treafons againft her. 
 
 Sir 
 
20 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 Eight Englifh burlefque veffes. Seems to be the effigies of fome 
 adventurer. 
 
 Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland ; almoft bald, and with very 
 thick beard. Eight Englifh verfes, 1 619, are to be fold by G. 
 Humble in Pope's-head-alley. Another, younger, but with a long 
 beard and ha: on. 
 
 Small neat half length of W. Burton of Falde, in an oval, with de- 
 vices, 1622. 
 
 Sir Henry Montagu, chief juftice of the King's-bench, with fix 
 Latin verfes, &c. 
 
 Sir William Segar, garter, principal king at arms. 
 
 John Abbot, bifhop of Salifbury, with fix Latin verfes, Abra. 
 Car compof. 
 
 John bifhop of Lincoln, with purfe-bearer, mace-bearer, fix boy 
 angels playing on mufical inftruments, and fix Latin verfes. A very 
 neat and curious print. 
 
 Frederick elector Palatine. 
 
 Elizabeth, his wife. 
 
 Frederick 
 Sir William behaved with great fpirit there, and with as much clevernefs after- 
 wards in piecing together a treafonable paper, torn and thrown into the fea by 
 one Chreieton. Wadd was fucceffively embafTador to the emperor Rodolph, to 
 Henry IV. and to Mary queen of Scots, infpe&or of the Irifh forces, of the privy 
 council to king James, and lieutenant of the Tower, from which poft (to his 
 honour) he was removed in 161 3 by Robert Carr earl of Somerfet, Sir William 
 being a man of too much integrity to be employed in the dark purpofes then in ■ 
 agitation. He died at his manor of Bat iles Waade [where he built the man- 
 fion itill fta.idmg] in 1623, aged 77. He married Anne daughter of Sir John 
 Hyron. His father Sir Armigel, who lies buried at Harnftcad, was the firft 
 Englifhman that made difcoveries in America. See Camden, the Englifh Wor- 
 thies, Ant. Wood, and Hift. and Antiq. of Effex, 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 21 
 
 Frederick Henry, their elded fori. 
 
 Charles prince of Wales. 
 
 John King bifhop of London. 
 
 Mathias De Lobel, Phyfician. 
 
 Sir Horatio Vere ; on either fide a foldier compleatly armed at bot- 
 tom ; trophies, &c. at top. 
 
 George Withers the poet, with eight Englifh. verfes, and this motto, 
 Nee habeo, nee careo, nee euro, 1622. 
 
 Frances Duchefs of Richmond and Lenox, covered with jewels, 
 a large veil behind. Conitantia coronat. 1623. 
 
 Frontifpiece to Nero Qefar, folio. 1624. This is the lateft date 
 to which I find Delaram's name. The four next were a family of 
 artifts and the bed performers in the laboured finical manner of that 
 
 age. 
 
 CRISPIN PASS, 
 
 Of Utrecht, was a man of letters, and not only induflrious to per- 
 fect himfelf in his art, but fond of promoting and encouraging it. 
 This appears particularly by his being at the expence of fetting forth 
 Holland's Heroologia, which is exprefsly faid to be publifhed Impenfis 
 Crifpini Pafs, and his not mentioning himfelf as having any fhare in 
 engraving the plates, makes me conclude that he recommended the 
 bell fculptors among the Flemifh. Indeed the prints have merit in 
 themfelves, befides being memorials of fo many remarkable per- 
 fonages. Crifpin frequented and ftudied the heft mailers, and was fent 
 by prince Maurice to teach drawing in an academy at Paris. At what 
 time he came to England is not clear ; none of his works done here 
 are dated, fays Vertue, later than 1635, yet he certainly lived fome 
 
 F years- 
 
22 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 years longer, as in 1643, being then probably very old, he published 
 his book, at Amfterdam, Delia Luce del dipingere &difegnare, in 
 Italian, French, high and low Dutch, folio. In the preface he relates 
 thefe circumftances of his life, " Des majeune age je me fuis adonne a 
 plufieurs & divers exercifes ; mais je me fuis particulierement attache 
 a eftudier avec les plus fameux maiftres, le fieur Freminent, peintre 
 de fa majefte tres Chretienne, le renomme peintre & architeSie fkur 
 Petro Paul Rubens, Abr. Bloemart, Paulo Morelfon, peintre et archi- 
 tecte de Utrecht — mais plus particulierement le tres noble feignrur 
 Vander Burg, avec lequel je vifitay l'academie, ou eto.ent les plus cele- 
 bres hommes du fiecle. L'illuftre prince Maurice de heureuie me- 
 moire m'envoya a Paris pour enfeigner le defeign a l'academie du fieur 
 Pluvinel, premier ecuyer du roy." He begins with a little geometry, 
 gives directions for the proportions of the human body, for figures in 
 ■perfpeclive, for drawing in the academy by lamp-light, defcribes the 
 ufe of the manekin or layman for difpofing draperies, and goes thro' 
 the proportions of horfes, lions, bears, leopards, elephants, fheep, cats, 
 and other quadrupeds, birds and fifhes. His human figures are taken 
 chiefly from Rubens, as is but too evident in the corpulency of his 
 women. Some plates are after Lanfranc, and moft of the animals 
 from Roland Savery. The firft divifion contains thirty plates, the 
 fecond, feven, and the third, eleven of perfpeclive. Among thefe, 
 are three cuts by his fon, William, cum privileg. du roy tres Chretien. 
 Bleau publifhed a fecond edition of this work, and to fwell the vo- 
 lume, added a great number of old plates, that belonged to other 
 books. Some of the plates have thefe defignations ; Robert de Vorft 
 inv. R. de Vorft incidit. R. Vandervorft. Except the lift of his 
 works, I have nothing more to add to Crifpin's article, but that 
 
 Peacham, 
 
Catalogue of Engravers* '2% 
 
 Peacham, in his Compleat Gentleman, ftyles him, " My racft ho- 
 neft loving friend. 5 ' 
 
 His next work is indeed very beautiful!, being a large fet of plates 
 for a folio, intituled, Inftruction du Roy en PExercife de monter a 
 Cheval, par Meffire Antoine de Pluvinel, the perfon mentioned in 
 the preface to his drawing-book. The work, which is in dialogues, 
 and foolifh enough, is in French and Dutch, adorned with many cuts 
 admirably defigned and executed. The young king, Louis XIII. 
 Pluvinel, the due de Bellegarde, grand ecuyer, and others of the 
 court, appear in almoft every print; and towards the conclufion are 
 fome plates exhibiting tilts at the barriers, in which are given por- 
 traits of all the great perlons of the court at that time, delivered, 
 though very fmall, with great exactitude. This valuable book is lit- 
 tle known, though not very fcarce. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, a moft fumptuous whole length, with crown, 
 fcepcer, globe, farthingale, royal arms, bible and fword on a table, 
 carpet and curtain, and twelve Latin verfes. Ilaac Olivier effigiebat, 
 Crifpin vande PafTe incidebat, procurante Joanne Waldnelto. This 
 I aft circumftance, and the paucity of Englifh heads engraved by Crif- 
 pin, make me doubt whether he ever was in England himfelf: per- 
 haps drawings were fent to him, as they have been of late to Hou- 
 braken for the illuftrious heads. 
 
 A head of the fame queen, oval. Among her titles is that of 
 Virginia. 
 
 James. I. in hat and ruff, oval within a fquare frame ; lion and 
 grifon fupporting it. Six Latin lines. Crifpin de Pafs excudit 
 Colonise. Joannes MeyfTens excudit Ant werpise. As Pafs executed 
 diis abroad, it is not extraordinary that he mould have continued 
 
 queen 
 
24 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 queen Elizabeth's grifon, not knowing that James on his acceffion 
 had afTumed the Scottifh fupporter. This print is well done, though 
 inferior to the preceding whole length. 
 
 Anne of Denmark, a curious print; fhs is drawn in her hair, 
 young, and with a very broad fquare fprigged ruff. Six Latin verfes. 
 Crifpin de Pafs f. & excudit Colonial. 
 
 Henry prince of Wales. 
 
 Charles prince of Wales, in an oval like the two laft. Four Latin 
 verfes. 
 
 Ludoica Juliana Comes Nafibvise, &c. in a round. 
 
 Sir Philip Sidney. 
 
 The earl of EiTex on horfeback. 
 
 Thomas Percius, nobilis Anglus, confpirationis A. Mdcv. initas 
 princeps. C. vande Pafs cxc. See a defcription of this rare print in 
 Ames, p. 154. There is alfo a print in quarto of the feven 
 confpirators. 
 
 A collection of zoo emblems for George Wither. 
 
 A fet of cuts for Ovid's Metamorphofes, the title of which is, 
 Pub. OvidiiNafonis xv. Metamorpho'eon librorum figure elegantif- 
 fima? a Crilpino Paffeo laminis seneis incilk, 1607. 
 
 Four large and handfome prints of Dives and Lazarus. The fun: 
 only is executed by the father ; the reft are by a younger fon, called 
 Crifpin likewife, as is the following, 
 
 Frederic elector Palatine, young, oval, fize of a large octavo, with 
 martial trophies. Crifpin PafTaeus jun. figu. & fculpf. The other 
 children of Crifpin Pafs were 
 
 WILLIAM 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. ■ 2$ 
 
 WILLIAM PASS, 
 
 Who engraved a very rare print, which the earl of Oxford bought 
 with the collection of fir Simonds Dewes, and of which Vertue gives 
 this account : It was a printed fheet, containing the family of James 
 I, and intituled, Triumphus Jacobi regis augufteque ipfius prolis. 
 The king fitting on his throne with his regalia; on his right the queen 
 and prince Henry leaning on fculls, to intimate they were dead ; on 
 his left prince Charles with his hand on a book, that laid on a 
 table •, an angel above holding two crowns. Near prince Charles 
 Hand the king and queen of Bohemia, and before them their kven. 
 children. At the bottom of the flieet feveral Latin and Englifh. 
 verfes. W. G. icripfit. Will. Pals fculpfit. illuftris. Jaco. R. Princi- 
 pique Carolo D. D. eorumquelicencia & favore excu. Joan. Bill. * 
 
 In another place Vertue defcribes a fimilar print, but does not fay 
 where he faw it. The latter is intituled, The Progenie of the renown- 
 ed prince James king of Great Britaine, France and Ireland. The 
 verfes in both languages are different from thole in the preceding ; to 
 the latter it is laid, hasc compofuit Johannes Webfter ; and the en- 
 
 G graver 
 
 * This beautifull and curious print (probably the very proof that was Lord 
 Oxford's) is r:ow in my pofleffion. I bought it at the fale of fir Charles Cotterel's 
 library in 1764, in the London edition of Thuanus, which is alfo adorned by 
 general Dormer and fir Clement Cotterel with feveral other fine and fcarce prints, 
 particularly one of Henry IV. Mary de' Medici ; their children and nurfes ; 
 and the print of the three Colignis, which I have mentioned in the life of Ifaac 
 Oliver. 
 
2 6 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 graver is George * Mountain. To be fold at the Globe over the 
 Exchange. I luppofe this plate was copied from that of Pafs. -f- 
 
 Another print recorded by Vertue contains in a half meet the king 
 and queen of Bohemia and four of their children. Will. Pafs fecit ad 
 vivum figurator 1621. About twenty Englilh verfes in two columns 
 at bottom. 
 
 I have a very valuable print of the Palatine family on a large fheet, 
 broadways, but without any name of engraver. By the manner I 
 fhould take it for Sadeler. The king of Bohemia, aged, fat, and me- 
 lancholy, is fitting with Elizabeth under fo:ne trees. One of their 
 fons, in appearance between twenty and thirty, ftands by the queen. 
 On the other fide are three young children, the leaft playing with a 
 rabbit. Two greyhounds, a pidgeon, a toad, and feveral animals are 
 difpofed about the landfcape, which is rich, and graved with much 
 freedom. The infeription is in French. 
 
 Of William Pafs I find thefe other works ; 
 
 Robert earl of Leicefter, head in oval, good, two Latin verfes, w fe. 
 
 Frances duchefs of Richmond and Lenox, half-length, extremely 
 neat, her arms in a fhield, on a table lies a book with thefe words, 
 Conftantia coronat. Over her a ft ate. Anno 1625 infculptum a Guilh. 
 PalTeo Londinum. This print, which is in my poffeffion, refembles 
 very much a whole-length (1 believe by Mare Garrard) of the fame 
 great lady, which I bought from the collection of the late earl of 
 
 Pom fret. 
 
 * I find but one other print with his name, and that a poor one ; it is of 
 Francis White, dean of Carlifle. 
 
 f This print, exceedingly inferior to the former, is now in the collection of 
 fir William Mufgrave, who bought it, with many other fcarce portraits, from 
 Thorefby's Mufeum in 1764/ 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 27 
 
 Pomfret. There is another of her in her * weeds with the duke's 
 picture at her + bread: at Longleate. But the beft portrait of her is 
 in Wilfon's Life of James I. The reader would find it well worth 
 his while to turn to it. 
 
 Sir John Hayward, L. L. D. died 1627, with emblems. W. Pafs, f. 
 
 Robert earl of EfTex on horfeback. 
 
 George duke of Buckingham, ditto. 
 
 Chriftian IV. king of Denmark, and Frederick duke of Holftein, 
 both Handing in one print. 
 
 Darcy Wentworth, set. 32, 1624. 
 
 James I. crowned, and fitting with a fword in his right hand, on 
 which, Fidei Defenfor, a death's head on his left on his knee, before 
 him prince Henry with his left hand on a fkull on a table. W. 
 Paflaeus f. & {c. anno domini 1621. 
 
 Another with the fame date, but the king's left hand is on the 
 globe, not on a fkull ; and inftead of prince Henry, there is prince 
 Charles. This fine print is in my pofieffion. 
 
 Sir Henry Rich captain of the guards, oval frame. W. Pafs, (c. 
 
 A fine print. 
 
 MAGDALEN 
 
 * Mr. Matters, author of the Hiftory of C. C. C. Cambridge, has another 
 of thefe. 
 
 + This was a fafhion at that time. There are three or four ladies drawn fo 
 by Cornelius Janfen at Sherbum-caftle, the lord Digby's ; of which Elizabeth 
 countefs of Southampton, a half-length richly attired, is one of Janfen's beft 
 works. The ruins of the bifhop's caftle, fir Waiter Raleigh's grove, the houfe 
 built by him and the firft earl of Briftol, the fiege the caftle fuftained in the 
 -civil war, a grove planted by Mr. Pope and the noble lake made by the laft lord, 
 concurr to make that feat one of the moft venerable and beautifull in England. 
 
28 Catalogue of Engraver?. 
 
 MAGDALEN PASS, 
 
 I find little of her work but a very fcarce little head in my own col- 
 lection, reprefenting the lady Katherine, at that time marchionefs, 
 afterwards duchefs, of Buckingham, with a feather fan. It is (lightly 
 finifhed, but very free. Salmacis & Hermaphroditus 1623-, Cepha- 
 lus & Procris ; and Latona changing the Lycian peafants into frogs, 
 both after Elfheimer. 
 
 SIMONPASS 
 
 Engraved counters of the Englifh royal family, as I have already 
 mentioned in the life of Milliard. Vertue fays he ftaid here about ten 
 years, and then paffed into the fervice of the king of Denmark, his 
 earlieft works in England being dated 1613. Mr. Evelyn in his 
 Sculptura, p. 88. adds, that Liberum Belgium by Simon de Pas, de- 
 dicated to prince Maurice of Naflau, is a very rare cut. Other prints 
 by him are, 
 
 James I. crowned, fitting in a chair ; prefixed to his works. 
 
 Ditto, with a hat. 
 
 Queen Anne, 1617. 
 
 Ditto, on horfeback, with a view of Windfor-caflle behind,. 
 
 Prince Henry with a lance, whole length. 
 
 Philip III. king of Spain. 
 
 Maria of Auftria, his daughter, the intended bride of Charles I. 
 
 Another of her, as fitter of Philip IV. much neater. Four L*tin 
 verfes. Sim. Pais, ic. Crilpin dePafs (I fuppofe the younger brother) 
 exc. 1622. 
 
 George 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 29 
 
 George Villiers earl of Buckingham, 1617. 
 
 Another of him when marquiis. 1620. To the knees, Handing 
 by a column in a chamber. Angels and feftoons of fruit. 
 
 Charles I. young, (when prince) in the robes of the garter. 
 
 Henry earl of Northampton. 1 never faw this print. 
 
 Francis Manners earl of Rutland. 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh, in an oval, arms and devices: Sim. Pafs fculpf. 
 Comp. Holland exc. 
 
 Archbifhop Abbot, ditto, with a view of Lambeth. Pafs and 
 Com p ton. 
 
 Another, 161 6, Lond. but without Lambeth, and Holland's name. 
 
 Thomab earl of Arundel (the great collector) oval, arms, Michael 
 Janfs. Mirevelt pinx. and Sim. Paffeus iculpf. L. Compt. Holl. excu. 
 
 William earl of Pembroke, do. white ftaff, arms. Pa. V. Somer 
 pinx, 1617. To be fold by Jo. Sudbury and G. Humble. And 
 Philip earl of Montgomery, do. 
 
 Richard earl of Dorfet, do. fold in Pope's-head-alley. 
 
 Frances Howard countels of Somerfet, a curious print of a cu- 
 rious perfon. It is a * fmall oval, the hair very round and curled, 
 like a wig, ruff. S. Pa. fculp. Lon. Comp. Holl. exc. I have a 
 print likewife of her hufband, by the fame, and a miniature of him 
 in his latter age by Hofkins. In both, his face is a fharp oval and 
 his hair fair. Proofs, that the print given of him among the illus- 
 trious heads, which is a very robuft black man, is not genuine. 
 
 William Knollis vifcount Wallingford, in an oval, with a hat like 
 lord Bacon. I am not certain by which Pafs, I believe by Simon. 
 
 H James 
 
 * Ames, p. 162. mentions another very like this, but with fome few va- 
 riations. 
 
30 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 James Hay baron of Saley, afterwards earl of Carlifie; graved by 
 Pafs, and fold by Sudbury and Humble. 
 
 John King bifhop of London, oval, twelve Latin verfes. Nicola 
 Lockey pinx. fieri curavir, and Simon Pafiasus fculpfit. 
 
 Lancelot Andrews bifhop of Ely, 1618. Qu. by which P;ifs. 
 
 I have a fmall neat head in an oval of Chrittiiia Popping, in a 
 Flemifh drefs, dedicated to her in a Latin inlcription, and with a 
 French motto, and a verfe from Ovid, executed in 161 5. By this 
 one fhould conclude he was not yet arrived. 
 
 Sir Edward Coke, with fix Latin verfes. 
 
 Another of Sir Walter Raleigh. 
 
 Sir Thomas Overbury. Veneno obiit 1613. Comp. Holl. exc. 
 Another, fmaller. 
 
 William Butler, phyfician, good. 
 
 * Count Gondomar ; dedicated to him, and ftrongly touched. 
 Thefe five lafl: are ovals. Another larger, with aims, cupids, trophies, 
 &c. very fine. Some of the following I take from Ames. The 
 pages refer to his book. 
 
 A monumental plate, ipfcribed by John Bill to his wife Anne, p. 23. 
 Lucy Harrington countefs of Bedford, the patronefs of Donne and 
 other wits of that age, p. 28. 
 
 Edward VI. p. 63. and James I. p. 89. Two more of the latter. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, whole-length. 
 
 Lord Chancellor Egerton. 
 
 Ant. Pluvinel Eques. 1623. 
 
 James Montagu bifhop of Winchefter. 
 
 John Arnd, a German divine. 
 
 Matoacaj 
 
 * There is another in folio, 1622. 
 
Catalogue, of Engravers-. 3 1 
 
 Matoaca, alias Rebecca, filia potentifs. princ. Powkatavi imp. 
 Virginiae, ^t, 21, 161 6. 
 
 A woman's head, 1616. 
 
 Sir Henry Hobart. 
 
 Sir Edward Cecil, afterwards lord Wimbledon. 
 
 Digby earl of Briftol. 
 
 Large head of Chriftian IV. 
 
 Captain John Smith, 161 7. 
 
 Title to lord Bacon's works. 
 
 Andreas Rivetus. 
 
 Antonius Walseus. 
 
 Robert Sidney vifcount Lille, afterwards earl of Leicefter, p. 103. 
 
 Charles earl of Nottingham, lord, high admiral, 122. 
 
 Aaron Rathburne, p. 142. 
 
 Sir Thomas Smith, embafTador to Ruffia, p. 155. 
 
 Mary Sidney countefs of Pembroke, filler of Sir Philip Sidney, for 
 whom he wrote the Arcadia, p. 161. She was old when this print 
 was done. 
 
 Henry Wriothefly earl of Southampton •, the friend of lord EiTex, 
 
 P- *77- 
 
 Edward Somerfet earl ofWorcefter, p. 181. 
 
 William Burton, phyfician, 1620. 
 
 JOHN PAYNE, 
 
 Was fcholar of Simon Pafs, and the firft Englishman that diftinguifhed 
 himfelf by the graver. Had his application been equal to his genius, 
 there is no doubt but he would have mined among the firft of his pro- 
 
 fefiion ; 
 
%2 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 feffion ; but he was idle, and though recommended to king Charles, 
 neglected his fortune and fame, and died in indigence before he was 
 forty. There is a thin volume in octavo, called Good-friday, con- 
 taining meditations on that day and printed in 1648, to which are 
 annexed fome poems, under the title of Calanthe, by T. Rawlins. 
 Among them is an epitaph on John Payne, then lately deceafed. Mr. 
 Evelyn * mentions him with applaufe-, " Yet had we a Payne for 
 his fhip, fome heads to the life, efpecially that of Dr. Alabafter, f fir 
 Benjamin Rudyard, and feveral other things." The fhip was a print 
 of the Royal Sovereign built in 1637 by Phineas Pett. It was en- 
 graved on two plates joined three feet long, two feet two inches high. 
 The head of Dr. Alabafter I have, and it truly deferves encomium, 
 being execured with great force, and in a more manly ftyle than the 
 works of his mafter. It was taken from a painting by Cornelius 
 Janfen. He did befides a ftorm, fome plates for books, and thefe 
 heads ; 
 
 Hugh Broughton, oval, 1620, with fix Latin verfes; very in- 
 ferior to the preceding. 
 
 Alderman Leate, oval, with verfes. 
 
 Roger Bolton, ditto, with four Latin verfes, 1632. 
 
 Sir Edward Coke, chief juftice, 1629. 
 
 Mr. Hobfon, with eight Englifh verfes. 
 
 Chriftian duke of Brunlwick, &c. trophies-, four Englifh verfes. 
 
 Robert Devereux (2d.) earlofEffcx; hat and feather ; J. P. neat 
 little fquare print. 
 
 Henry 
 * Sculptura, p. 98. 
 
 f This is one o;'his belt. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 33 
 
 Henry Vere earl of Oxford, ftill better. It is a fquare in the 
 middle of a larger print by W. Pais, in which, at to,>, bottom and 
 fides, are foldiers exercifing, or holding banners with mottoes. 
 
 Carolus Ludovicus Princeps elector ; a meer he„d, without even 
 the neck. 
 
 Algernon Percy earl of Northumberland, in the fame manner. 
 
 Elizabeth countefs of Huntingdon. 
 
 Dr. Smith, of St. Clement's Danes, M. D. 
 
 Henry VII. Henry VIII. count Mansfeld, bifhop Hall, bifhop 
 Lake, bifhop Andrews, fir James Ley chief juftice, George Withers 
 the poet, Richard Sibbs ; Ferdinand of Auftria ; Shakefpear, John 
 Prefton, Mr. Arthur Hilderfham, William Whitaker; Francis 
 Hawkins, a boy ; Hobfon the carrier ; and thefe particular title- 
 pages ; to the Guide to Godlinefs ; to the works of John Boys ; to 
 Chriftian Warfare ; and to God's Revenge againfl Murder, and to 
 La Mufe Chreflienne, du fieur Adrian de Rocquigny, 1634. 
 
 JOANNES BARRA, 
 
 Of what country I know not, appears to have engraved thefe pieces, 
 
 Lodowick duke of Richmond and Lenox, 1624. 
 
 A title plate, 1624. 
 
 Another, 1632. 
 
 A man's head, fomething like a buft, oval ornament ; two figures 
 reprefenting painting and litterature, 162a. 
 
 There were many other engravers in the reign of James I. with 
 whofe private ftory we are lb little acquainted, that it isimpoffible to- 
 
 I afcertain- 
 
34- Catalogue of Engraven. 
 
 afcertain their feveral ages and precedence. I fhall give them pro- 
 mifcuoufly as they occur. 
 
 JOHN NORDEN, 
 
 , c 1 In Mr. Bagford's collection was a view of London published 
 i by Norden in 1603 *, at bottom a reprefentation of the lord- 
 mayor's fhew, with variety of habits. In the fame perfon's pofTeffion 
 Vertue faw another plan of London by T. Porter, in which he obfei v- 
 ed thefe particulars; at the upper end of the Hay-markrt was a iquare 
 building, called, Peccadilla-hall ; at die end of Covencry-ftreet, a 
 gaming-houfe, afterwards the manfion and garden of the lord keeper 
 Coventry, and where Gerard-ftreet is, was an artil'ery-grouni or 
 •military-garden made by prince Henry. Norden ie:ms to h..ve been 
 only a topographical engraver; he is known by his Speculum 3, tan- 
 nine, or Hiitorical and Chorographical Drfcription of Middlclex md 
 Hartfordfhire, with a neat frontifpiece and maps. Antony Wood 
 conjectures with great probability that he is the fame per'on with the 
 author of feveral tracts, which he enumerates, and thinks he was born 
 in Wiltfhire, and adds that he was a commoner of Hart-liall, Oxford, 
 in 1564, and took the degree of mafter of arts in 1573, that he lived 
 at Hendon near Acton in Middlefex, was patronized by, or fervant to 
 lord Burleigh and his fon Robert earl of Salifbury, and that he was a 
 furveyor of the king's lands in 161 4. Vertue fubjoins that one Charles 
 Whitwell made a map of Surrey for Norden, which was neater than 
 his other maps. He mentions alfo a large title-plate for the 
 
 Enghfh 
 
 * In that year 1603 one Laurence Johnfon graved feveral heads for the 
 Turkifh Hiitory. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 35 
 
 Englifh Bible, infcribed C. Boel fecit in Richmont, 1611. In Ry- 
 mer's Fasdera, vol. xvii, is a patent granted in 161 8 to Aaron Rath- 
 burne and Roger Bruges, for making a furvey for a true and perfecl 
 defcription of the citie of London and Weftminfter, in a map; and 
 alio ieveral other cities. 
 
 WILLIAM HOLEorHOLLE 
 
 -. 1 Engraved an oval head of Michael Drayton in 161 3, a poor 
 i performance ; and a head of Joannes Florius, Italian mafter 
 to Ainne of Denmark. See Ames, p. 68. And thole of George 
 Withers, Michael Drayton, Tom Coryat, John Hayward, and a 
 very neat whole-length of prince Henry, for Drayton's Polyolbion. 
 He alio publifhed a copy-book, called, The Pen's Excellencie by 
 Martin Billingfley. The fecond edition with the picture of the latter 
 has 28 plates, 1618. . 
 
 JODOCUS HONDIUS, 
 
 Of whom I have given fome account in the third volume, under the 
 article of his grandfon Abraham, was fon of Olivier De Hondt, an 
 ingenious artift of Ghent, where probably Jodocus was born in 1 $63, 
 and where he ftudied the mathematics, and the Latin and Greek 
 tongues. The city of Ghent being delivered up, when Jodocus was 
 twenty years old, he came to England, and exercifed various arts, as, 
 making mathematical inftruments, types for printing, and engraving 
 charts and maps. Among thefe were fir Francis Drake's voyages, 
 the Holy-land, the Roman Empire, and divers others. His Celeftial 
 
 and 
 
36 Catalogue of "Engravers. 
 
 and Terreftrial globes, the largeft that had then been publl died, were 
 much commended. Several of Speed's * maps were executed by his 
 T>and ; and he had a great fhare in the -f- Atlas Major of J Gerard Mer- 
 cator, which was finifhed by his fon Henry, and published at Amfter- 
 dam in 1636. A tranflation of it by Henry Hexam quarter-mafter to 
 Col. Goring was dedicated to Charles I. Befides thefe and fome 
 things which I have mentioned in the life of his grandfon, Jodocus en- 
 graved a fmall print of Thomas Cavendifh, the famous failor, another 
 of queen Elizabeth, a large fheet print of fir Francis Drake, another 
 fmaller, and a head of Henry IV. of France. He married in London 
 in 1586, and had fevera! children-, but removing to Amfterdam, he 
 died there in 1 61 1, being then but 48 years of age. His fon 
 
 HENRY HONDIUS 
 
 Finifhed many works begun by his father, and in 1-641 engraved 1 
 print of William prince of Orange from a painting by Alexander 
 Cooper-, a large head of queen Elizabeth, done at the Hague 1632 ; 
 James I. set. 42, 1608 (very poor); and in a fet of heads publifhed 
 in 1608, thole of fir Richard Spenfer and fir Ralph Winwood. 
 
 A. BLOOM, 
 
 A name to a print of James I. which is infcribed in Italian, Giacomo 
 RedellaGran Bretagna. The fame perfon, I fuppofe, is meaned by 
 his initials A. B. which I find to fome prints of that age. 
 
 THOMAS 
 
 * Others were done by Abraham Goos. 
 
 + There is a print of Jodocus prefixed to it. 
 
 X Mercator afterwards publifhed a curious map of the Britifli ifles. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers, 37 
 
 THOMAS COCKSON 
 
 Is unknown to us but by his works here following, 
 Mathias I. emperor. 
 Demetrius emperor of Ruflia. 
 Mary de' Medici. 
 Lewis XIII. 
 
 Concini marquis d'Ancre, i 61 7. 
 
 Francis White dean of Carhfle, 1624. Thefe fix are on folio. 
 Henry of Bourbon prince of Conde. 
 Prmcefs Elizabeth. 
 Samuel Daniel, 1609. 
 T. Coryat. 
 
 The Revels of Chriftiandom. 
 King James I. fitting in parliament. 
 King Charles I. in like manner. Each on a whole fheet. 
 Charles earl of Nottingham on horfeback. Sea and fhips. 
 Cockfon generally ufed this mark (T 
 
 PETER STENT 
 
 Was, I believe, an engraver, certainly a print-feller. On a portrait of 
 the king of Bohemia is faid, fold by Peter Stent. To one of the 
 above mentioned Francis White, but engraved by G. Mountain, is 
 P. Stent excud. as is to a cut of fir James Campbell lord- mayor in 
 1629, but to one of Andrew Willet with fix Latin verfes, are the let- 
 ters P. S. who probably cut the plate, as no other artift is mentioned. 
 
 K Stent 
 
38 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 Scent certainly lived fo late as 1662, for in that year, as he had done 
 in 1650, he publifhed a lift of the prints that he vended, which lift 
 was reprinted by Overton (who bought his ftock) in 1672. In the 
 rlrft catalogue were mentioned plates of London, St. James's, Noniuch, 
 Whitehall, Wanfted, Oatlands, Hampton-court, Theobalds, Weft- 
 minfter, Windfor, Greenwich, Eltham, Richmond, Woodftock, Ba- 
 iinghoufe ; battle of Nafeby, two fheets, with general Ludiow on 
 horfeback •, two more of the battle of Dunbar ; all now extremely 
 fcarce, and the more valuable as many of the edifices themielves no 
 longer exift. Nonfuch, that object of curiofity, is commonly known 
 only by the imperfect and conrufed fketch in one of Speed's maps, 
 but there is a large and fine print of it, by G. Hoefnagle, in the firft 
 volume of Braun's Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Of * Old Richmond 
 and Greenwich I have drawings ; and of the former is a fmall view 
 by Hollar. In Overton's lift is mentioned a map of the Royal-ex- 
 change by Thomas Cartwright, the builder. 
 
 WILLIAM 
 
 * At the lord vifcount Fitzwilliam's, on Richmond-green, are two very 
 large pictures which came out of the old neighbouring palace : they are views 
 of that palace, and were painted by Vinckenboom, who, I never knew, was 
 in England. The landfcape in both is good, and touched in the flyle of Ru- 
 bens ; the figures are indifferent, the horfes bad. In the view to the green is a 
 flag-hunting : in the other morrice-dancers, and a fool colle&iong money from 
 the fpecl:ators. By the drefles they appear to have been painted about the latter 
 end of James I. or beginning of Charles, for fome of the ruffs are horizontal, 
 fome falling on the breaft, which latter fafhion was introduced at that period. 
 There appears to have been a pretty detached chapel, which is not in Hollar's 
 view, and a boarded gallery to the ferry. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers, 39 
 
 WILLIAM DOLLE, 
 
 A name that occurs to a * neat little print of fir Henry Wootton, 
 with the word philofophemur; and to thofe of Mar. Francke mailer 
 of Pembroke-hall, Cambridge; of John Cofin bifhop of Durham ; of 
 Samuel Boteley, of the duke of Buckingham; of Sanderfon bifhop of 
 Lincoln, of Milton, Hooker, and the earl of Effex. 
 
 D E O D A T E, 
 
 A name to a print of fir Theodore Mayeme. An Italian called 
 Deodate, was phyfician to prince Henry, and probably this en- 
 graver. 
 
 R. M E I G H A N 
 
 r n? Certainly worked in the year 1628, as he then publifhed a 
 
 * head of John Clavel, and lived in St. Dunftan's church-yard. 
 Ames, 46. 
 
 THOMAS CECIL L, 
 
 y- ? Commended by Mr. Evelyn, did a print of fir John Burgh 
 
 * who was killed at the ifle of Rhee, of John Weaver -f , which 
 is dated 1 63 1, of Walter Curie bifhop of Winchefter, a fmall whole- 
 length 
 
 * There is another fimilar by Lombart, prefixed to the firft edition of fir 
 Henry's Remains. 
 
 t It is prefixed to his Funeral Monuments : the frontifpiece is by the fame 
 hand. 
 
40 Catalogue of Engraven. 
 
 length of Archee the king's jefter, an oval head of John Talbot earl 
 of Shrewfbury, queen Elizabeth on horfeback; Guftavus Adolphus*; 
 ■f Edw. Reynolds bifhop of Norwich •, fir W. Cecil ; Thomas 
 Kiderminfter of Langley, 1628; and the frontifpiece to lord Bacon's 
 Sylva Sylvarum. ■ 
 
 ROBERT VAUGHAN, 
 
 His works, though not numerous nor good, are more common than 
 thofe of the ten preceding. Such are, 
 
 James I. 
 
 Lancelot Andrews bifhop of Winchefter. 
 
 Sir John Wynn of Gwedur in Carnarvonfhire, knight and baronet, 
 obiit 1626, ast. 73, a very large head, coarfely done. 
 
 George Clifford earl of Cumberland, in an oval. 
 
 John Fifher bifhop of Rochefter. 
 
 Sir Francis Drake, with four Englifh verfes. 
 
 Mr. Arthur Hildefham, preacher at Afhby de la Zouch. 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh. 
 
 Judge Littleton, kneeling before a defk. 
 
 Thomas Wilsford, set. 40. with a line from Boetius, and four 
 Englifh verfes. 
 
 He engraved a monument in Dugdale's Warwickfhire, and fome 
 of the maps ; the cuts in Norton's Ordinal, and finifhed thofe for 
 
 Afhmole's 
 
 * In Scudcry's Curia Politiae. 
 
 t This head of Bifhop Reynolds was probably engraven while he was only 
 rector of Braunton in Nonhamptonfhire, of which he was poffeffed in 1631; 
 fee the title to his Treatife of the Paflions. He was not confecrated bifhop till 
 1660, and none of Cecilfs works b^ar d-te after the rei^n of Charles I. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 41 
 
 Afhmole's Theatrum Chemieum in 1651, at the latter's houfe in 
 Black-friars. Vertue fays, from Afhmole's MSS. that during the 
 Interregnum Vaughan engraved a print of Charles II. to which he 
 added fo offenfive an infcription, that an accufation was preferred 
 againft him for it after the reftoration. I have a very curious little 
 book, intituled, " The true Effigies of our mod Illuflrious Sovereign 
 Lord King Charles, Queen Mary, with the reft of the Royal Progenie ; 
 alfo a Compendium or Abftracl; of their moft famous Genealogies and 
 Pedigrees, expreffed in profe and verfe, with the Times and Places of 
 their Births, 164.1." It contains heads of the king, queen and prince 
 Charles, and whole-lengths of Mary, James, Elizabeth, Anne, Henry 
 in his cradle, and an elder Charles who died. Some are by Hollar, 
 one by our Robert Vaughan. The duke of York is playing at tennis. 
 
 Edward Terry, rector of Greenford, Middlefex. This is the lateft 
 I find of Vaughan's works, being dated 1655. There is a print of 
 Robert Devereux earl of ElTex, general of the parliament, which 
 Ames gives as engraved by J. Vaughan. If this is not an error of 
 the prefs for R. it might be a brother. There is another of this lord 
 by J. Hulett, of whom I find no other * work, except a print of fir 
 T. Fairfax. 
 
 Vaughan engraved fome, if not all the heads in Bentivoglio's Wars 
 of Flanders, Englifhed by the earl of Monmouth. 
 
 L WILL IMA 
 
 * I am informed that the heads of lord EfTex and Fairfax were done for 
 Peck's Life of Cromwell ; and that Hulett executed many plates for Coetlo- 
 gon's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, and for the Life of Queen Anne, both 
 publifhed in weekly numbers by Robert Walker. The plates for the latter 
 were copied from Dubofc. 
 
42 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 WILLIAM MARSHAL*, 
 
 r ) A more voluminous workman, who by the perfons he re- 
 \ prefented I fhould conclude practiced early in the reign of 
 James. In the year 1634 and fix or feven years afterwards he was 
 employed by Mofeley the bookfeller Co grave heads for books of 
 poetry, and from f their great fimilarity in drawing and ornaments 
 Vertue fuppofed that he drew from the life, though he has not ex- 
 preffed ad vivum, as was the cuftom afterwards; and he was confirmed 
 in this conjecture by a print of Milton at the age of 21, with which 
 Milton, who was handfome, and Marfhal but a coarfe engraver, 
 feems to have been difcontented, by fome Greek lines that are added 
 to the bottom of the plate, which was prefixed to his Juvenile Poems. 
 Vertue adds that from this to the year 1 670 he knows no engraving of 
 Milton, when Faithorne executed one, with ad vivum delineavit et 
 fculpfit, and this Vertue held for the moft anthentic likenefs of that 
 great poet, and thought MarfhaFs and Faithorne's bore as much re- 
 femblance as could be expected between Features of 2 1 and 62. Mar- 
 fhal had the felicity too of engraving Shakefpear for an edition of his. 
 poems in duodecimo 1640, reprefenting him with a fquare ftiff band 
 and a laurel in his hand. This is very hard, but not fo bad as threa 
 others I have by his hand, of bifhop Ridley, of doctor Whitacre, and 
 of Robert Dudley earl of Leicefter. There is befides a larger oval of 
 
 Dr. 
 
 * He might be brother of Alexander Marfhal the painter, whom I have men- 
 tioned in a former volume. Another William Marfhal was a printfeller in the 
 year 1690. 
 
 t He inftances in the prints of Stapleton, Milton and Hodges. The laft I 
 nnJ no where eli'e. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 43. 
 
 Dr. T. Taylor. But the beft of his works that I have feen, and that 
 too probably one of his earlieft, before employed in the drudgery of 
 bookfellers, is the head of a young author, without * a name, ast. i8.- 
 anno 1591, but with arms, a Spanifh motto, and fome verfes by 
 Izaak Walton. This is much laboured. Ames has recorded about 
 twenty more, of lord Bacon, lord Burleigh, Charles I. doctor Colet, 
 R. Carpenter, earl of EfTex, queen Elizabeth, John Hall, marquis of 
 Hamilton, Philemon -f- Holland, Robert Jenkins, Henry earl of Mon- 
 mouth, John Sym, R. Sibbes, J. Sherley, William earl of Sterling, 
 Jofiah Shute, and archbifhop Ufher J. Marfhal alfo engraved, but 
 very poorly, the frontifpiece to Tailor's Liberty of Prophecying; and 
 Fairfax on horfeback, for a title-page to Spragg's England's Reco^ 
 very, folio: 
 
 G. G L O V E R, 
 
 r i Was cotemporary with Marfhall, and engraved the portraits 
 J of Lewis Roberts in 1637, of J. Goodwin, William BarrifF, 
 fir Edward Deri rig, JohnLilburn, JohnPym, Henry Burton and Nat. 
 Witt, all fpecified by Ames. And a fmall whole-length of fir Tho- 
 mas Urqhart§, Joannes Amos Comenius, Mrs. Mary Griffith, and 
 fome others, whom he hath omitted. Sir Edward Dering's is finely 
 
 finifhed. 
 
 HENRY 
 
 * It is Dr. Donne, equipped for the expedition to Cales ; and is prefixed to 
 an early edition of his poems. 
 
 t This is at the bottom of the frontifpiece to his tranflation of Xenophon's- 
 Cyropasdia. 
 
 % I have four more, Robert Herrick, Daniel Featley, Will. Hodfon, and fir- 
 T. Fairfax on horfeback. Edw. Bowers pinx. 
 
 § He made the firft Englifh tranflation of Rabelais. 
 
44- Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 HENRY PEACHAM, 
 
 Author of the Compleat Gentleman, was certainly a judge of thofe 
 arts which are the fubjects of thefe volumes-, and having contributed 
 to their illuftration, deferves a larger article in fuch a work than I am 
 able to give of him *. Sanderfon, an intelligent writer on the fame 
 topics, is equally unknown to us •, his Graphice, though in tortured 
 phrafe, contains both fenfe and inftruction. The writers of that age, 
 though now neglected for their uncouth ftyle, their witticifms, and 
 want of mining abilities, are worth being conlulted for many anec- 
 dotes and pictures of manners, which are to be found no where elfe. 
 What variety of circumftances are preferved by Loyd, Winftanley, 
 and fuch obfolete biographers! Fuller, amidft. his antiquated wit, yet 
 wit it was, is full of curious, though perhaps minute information. 
 His fucceflbr Anthony Wood, who had no more notion of elegance 
 than a fcalping Indian, nor half fo much dexterity in hacking his ene- 
 mies, is inexhauftibly ufeful. Peacham finds his place here by a 
 good print that he engraved after Holbein of fir Thomas Cromwell, 
 knight, afterwards earl of EfTex. 
 
 :6 35J 
 
 ROBERT DE VOERST 
 
 Was an eminent mailer, competitor of Vofterman, and 
 known by fome prints of merit from the works of Vandyck. 
 
 In 
 * He was of. Trinity-college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of mafter 
 of arts, and was tutor to the earl of Arundel's children, whom he attended into 
 the Low-countries. Befides the Compleat Gentleman, he wrote a little tradl 
 with fome humour, called, TheWorth of a Penny ; and divers other works, 
 as is faid, in an advertifement at the end of the fecond edition of the laft men- 
 tioned piece. 
 
o> riartu^e^d ' A~ 4 a,. 
 
 • J)rd -paw?. 
 
 T- CfuT7>l$JTX.< ll'tt/e . 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 45 
 
 In what year he came to England or left it, does not appear: his Iateft 
 works in this country are dated 1635. Vanderdort, who mentions 
 him three or four times in king Charles's catalogue *, exprefsly calls 
 him the king's engraver, for whom he did two plates, one of his 
 majefty's fifter, the other of the emperor Otho, which Vandyck 
 painted to fupply the lofs of one of Titian's Caefars. Voerfl made a 
 prefent too to the king of a drawing on vellom with the pen, our lady 
 hugging Chrift, and St. John. Mr. Evelyn mentioning Voerfl:, 
 i'ays-f-, " He has likewife graven a number of heads after Vandyck; 
 Ifhall only mention (thofe of ) the learned fir Kenelm Digby, Inigo 
 Jones, and thofe two incomparable figures \ of king Charles and his 
 royal confort." He executed another of the queen alone, and the 
 following ; 
 
 Robert earl of Lindfey, from Mirevelt. 
 
 James Stewart duke of Lenox, a middle-fized oval, with fhort 
 round head of hair. Geo. Geldorp pinx. Another, when older. 
 
 Philip Herbert, earl of Montgomery (afterwards of Pembroke) 
 larger oval. Mitens pinx. Another, fquare, after Vandyck, very 
 freely done. 
 
 Abraham Aurelius, fmall fquare half-length. 
 
 Sir George Carew earl of Totnefs, large oval, with military tro- 
 phies, four Latin verfes. A good print. 
 
 Elizabeth queen of Bohemia, set. 35, anno 1631. Londini. G. a 
 Hondhurft p. 
 
 Erneft count Mansfeld. 
 
 Charles Lewis count Palatine. 
 
 M Prince 
 
 * P. 71, 74. 
 
 f Sculptura, p. 76. 
 
 t Vertue engraved the fame pi&ure again. 
 
46 Catalogue of Engravers* 
 
 Prince Rupert. 
 
 Robert Rich earl of Warwick. 
 
 Edward lord Littleton. 
 
 James marquis of Hamilton. 
 
 Henry earl of Holland. 
 
 Prince Charles, after Dobfbn. 
 
 Edward Sackville earl of Dorfet. 
 
 Philip earl of Pembroke. 
 
 Simon Vouet. 
 
 William earl of Denbigh. 
 
 Henry Vere earl of Oxford, with a truncheon •, young. 
 
 George Clifford earl of Cumberland, with a truncheon. 
 
 Small head of Goris, graved on Giver. 
 
 Robertus Van Voerft, calcographus, Londini. A. Van dyck p. his 
 own portrait. He alfo, as I have faid, cut fome plates of animals for 
 Crifpin Pafs's drawing-book : but his works, fays Vertue, are not 
 numerous. His head is in the collection of Vandyck's painters. 
 
 LUKE VOSTERMAN 
 
 Was, I think, fuperior to his rival Voerft, at leaft his prints are more 
 highly finifhed. Vertue fays he ftaid here about five or fix years, but 
 in different places has mentioned works that take in the fpace of eight 
 years. He was employed by the king and the earl of Arundel *, and 
 his and Voerft's plates feem to be the firft that were done here from 
 hiftoric fubjefts. Vofterman from the king's collection engraved 
 Raphael's St. George, Chrift praying in the garden by Annibal 
 
 Caracci, 
 * He worked for the earl in 1631. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 47 
 
 Caracci, and his burial by Parmegiano, and Lot and his daughters by 
 the fame. For the earl of Arundel, as early as 1623, hemadefome 
 drawings with the pen, particularly a woman's head from Lionardo 
 da Vinci, and a portrait of prince Henry. And for the fame lord 
 he performed a good print from Vandyck's fine picture of the earl * 
 and his countefs Alathea Talbot, fitting together, the earl pointing 
 to a globe. To the fame lady Vofterman dedicated a large print on 
 fix fheets from Rubens's battle of the Amazons, And he drew the 
 old countefs, Anne Dacre, the earl's mother, from whence Hollar 
 engraved a very neat and rare print. What portraits 1 find of his 
 hand are, 
 
 Charles I. with ruff, ribband, and flafhed habit; large octavo, good. 
 
 Vandyck, looking over his fhoulder, and holding up his cloak, 
 chain about his neck. 
 
 Thomas duke of Norfolk, with the Haves of lord treafurer and 
 earl Marlhal ; from Holbein. A very fine print. 
 
 Sir Thomas More from ditto, unlike all other pictures of fir 
 Thomas. This has a flatter face and a very fmall bonnet. His 
 right hand is held up to his beard, a letter or paper in his left, a little 
 white dog lies on a table before him. 
 
 Erafmus ; after the fame painter. 
 
 Holbein himfelf, with the pencil in his left hand, 1 fuppofe copied 
 from another print. 
 
 Aloyfius Contarini, embafiador from Venice to James I. 162S. 
 
 The old, old, very old man, Thomas Parr. 
 
 Claudius Maugis, 1630. 
 
 William earl of Pembroke. 
 
 William 
 
 * There is another of the earl alone. 
 
48 Catalogue of Engraver?. 
 
 William Cavendifh marquis of Newcaftle. 
 
 Abraham Aurelius, Lond. ast. 43, 161 8. 
 
 Charles duke of Bourbon. 
 
 St. George, 1627. 
 
 St. Helena. 
 
 What heads he engraved from Vandyck, I fuppofe were executed 
 after he left England. In that period too probably was done a fmall 
 oval head of Jean Conte de Tilly, with four emblematic figures and 
 fix French veries. As I do not know the time of Vofterman's death, 
 a print of fir Hugh Cartwright from Diepenbeck, engraved in 1656, 
 might be the workof Vofterman junior, who made a plate from Hol- 
 bein's Triumph of Riches. The father, while in England, painted a 
 fmall piece or two for a Mr. Skinner of Rochefter. 
 
 In this place fhould appear the indefatigable and admired Hollar, 
 but the very enumeration of his works having furnilhed his no left 
 laborious fuccefibr Mr. Vertue with matter for an entire volume, it 
 would be impertinent to dwell on his article. Though employed by 
 bookfellers, few of his prints but were ufeful or curious : his largefl 
 are indifferent •, the nearer his works approach to wanting a magnify- 
 ing-glafs, the nearer they advance to perfection. 
 
 About the fame period were many other artifts, feveral of whom at 
 prefent fupport their claim by a fingle print or two. I will name 
 them, becaufe when once ranged, it is eafy for collectors to allot to 
 them as many more of their works as fhall be difcovered ; and I hope 
 the former will thank me for my pains, for if the drudgery of col- 
 lecting is dull, what is it to be a collector's collector ? 
 
 MARTIN 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 49 
 
 MARTIN DROESHOUT, 
 
 His heads are Shakefpeare, John Fox, martyrologift ; Richard Elton; 
 John Howfon bifhop of Durham. To this print is the name of Wil- 
 liam Peake, printfeller •, probably the father of fir Robert Peake, who 
 engraved fome things himfelf, and whom I have mentioned in my 
 fecond volume. Droefhout was alfo employed for Haywood's 
 Hierarchy of Angels. 
 
 H. S T O C K, 
 
 To a print of William earl of Salifbury, oval. 
 
 H. VANDERBORCHT, 
 
 r ? The painter, whom I have mentioned before, graved feveral 
 -' things from the Arundelian collection. At Paris was a col- 
 lection of plates from that cabinet, containing g6y pieces pafted into a 
 book. Vanderborcht's are dated from 1631 to 1638. 
 
 T. SLATER 
 
 Lived, I fuppofe, about this time, having graved a head of George 
 Webbe, bifhop of Limerick, whofe drefs is of that age. See Ames, 
 p. 180. 
 
 Some Englifh heads were done by an engraver that I do not find 
 was ever here, though he ftyled himfelf the king's engraver : They 
 are very large and handfome prints, particularly thofe of Charles I. 
 
 N his 
 
50 Catalogue of Engravers-, 
 
 his queen, and the duke of Buckingham. There is a fmaller of fir 
 Dudley Carleton, and one ftill lefs of Antonio di Dominis archbifhop 
 of Spalatro. This artift was William Delff, who worked chiefly after 
 Mirevelt. 
 
 George Gifford did a head of John Bate, poor enough ; and ano- 
 ther of Hugh Latimer bifhop of Worcefter; and Edmund Marmion, 
 a head of George Tooke of Popes, oval. 
 
 THOMAS CROSS 
 
 /. A Occurs oftener : by him I find plates of 
 
 ^ Jeremiah Burroughs, 1646. 
 Jonas More, mathem. with a fcroll of paper in his hand, 1 649. 
 H. Stone pinx. 
 
 Thomas Doolittle, minifter of the gofpel. 
 
 Robert Dingley, mailer of arts. 
 
 John Gadbury. 
 
 Chriftopher Love. 
 
 Edward Leigh. 
 
 John Richardfon, bifhop of Ardagh, 1654, 
 
 Philip Maffinger. 
 
 Francis Roberts. 
 
 Thomas Wilfon. 
 
 Thomas Fidell of Furnival's-inn. 
 
 Richard Brome, fix Englifh verfes. 
 
 Samuel Clarke, pallor of St. Benet Finck.. 
 
 Vincent Wing. 
 
 Frontifpiece to White's Rich Cabinet, 1684. 
 
 S. S AVERY, 
 
Catalogue of Engravers 5.1 
 
 S. SAVERY, 
 
 Was probably in England, though of three prints with this figna- 
 ture, there is but one which has not fome foreign marks to it. This 
 laft is of Speed, who, with his hat on, is fitting in his chair. It is 
 dedicated by George Humble. The other two are, 
 
 Charles I. with a high crowned hat, as he is reprefented in the mez- 
 zotinto of him at his trial, which, by the way, is faid to be painted by 
 Vandyck, who was dead fome years before that event. The face 
 probably was taken from one of his pictures, and the hat added. In 
 this print by Savery is a view of Weftminfter, in the manner of Hol- 
 lar, A. V. Dyck. pinx S. Savery fecit. Jooft Hartgers excud. The 
 Infcription in Dutch. There is another of thefe without the name of 
 Savery. 
 
 Thomas lord Fairfax, profile ; hat on. A flrong dark print, 
 fomething like the manner of Rembrandt. Dutch verfes. 
 
 "o 
 
 J, G O D D A R D 
 
 £ i Known by only one print, of Martin Billingfley, jetat. fuje 
 
 5 27, 1 651, oval frame, motto, four Englilh verfes. This 
 
 Billingfley appears to have been a writing- mailer, a profeflion who 
 
 have been very apt to think their portraits of confequence enough to 
 
 he preferved. 
 
 J. CHANTRY, 
 
 tl66iI Another obfcure artift, engraved the heads of Edward 
 J Leigh, efq. M. A. of Magdalen-hall Oxford \66o, of Tho- 
 mas 
 
52 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 mas Whitaker, phyfician to Charles II. of Selden, and Gething, a 
 writing-mafter. 
 
 *t> 
 
 J. DICKSON 
 
 rr 1 Did a head of Edward Parry, Epifcopi Laonenfis, anno 
 5 1660, o> 
 
 66} 
 
 1001 
 
 Jxon. 
 
 A. HERTOCKS 
 
 Engraved A. Brome 1661, oval frame. 
 * Sir Edward Nicholas, fecretary of ftate; oval frame 
 laurelled. 
 
 Ld. Chief Juftice Rolle, a celebrated writer on the law. 
 Edward Waterhoufe, Arm. and a few other heads. 
 "W. Chamberlayne's head, prefixed to his Pharonnida, 1659. 
 A frontifpiece to the Icon Bafilike, in folio. V. Ames, p. 34; 
 another, to the compleat collection of that kings work's; that to Mr. 
 Evelyn's Sculptura f, and feveral others. 
 
 F. H. VAN HOVE, 
 
 Another Dutch engraver and more J prolific, feems to have work- 
 ed here from the end of Charles I. to near the conclufion of the reign 
 of king William : his cuts are dated in the year 164S, 1653. 1654, 
 
 1692, 
 
 * The picture from whence this was taken, was done abroad in 1654. Vertue 
 did a print of Sir Edward from a better picture bv Sir Peter Lely, in 1665. 
 
 •f- V. Sculptura, p. 46. 
 
 J Ames mentions two dozen of his prints. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 53 
 
 1692, * &c. but I have feen nothing of his hand that makes a parti- 
 cular enumeration of his works necefiary. 
 
 ROTERMANSf 
 
 Did a print of fir William Waller, dated 1643, but I do not know- 
 that he was in England, having found nothing more of his hand, 
 unlefs a print of Nathaniel Richards, gent, mentioned by Ames, p. 
 141, with the initial letters T. R. be his. Rawlins the medalliftfeldom 
 put more than thofe capitals either to his coins or writings. They 
 may therefore belong to him. 
 
 FRANCIS BARLOW, 
 
 Who has J already appeared in this work, is peculiarly intituled to a 
 place here ; though having given what particulars Vertue could dis- 
 cover relative to his life, I fhall here only fpecify his etchings. 
 
 For Edward Benlow's divine poems, called, Theophila, fol. 1652, 
 he, drew and etched feveral defigns, as he did for Ogleby's Virgil and 
 JEfop. 
 
 His fhare in Monke's Funeral, and in the book of birds § I have 
 
 mentioned. 
 
 O A 
 
 * There is a fmall print ofking William on horfeback, by Van Hove, prefix- 
 ed to the Epitome of the Art of War 1692. He did a confiderable number of 
 prints for John Dunton the bookfeller in that king's reign. SeeDunton's Life 
 and Errors, p. 346. 
 
 f He fpelled his name, Rodttermondt. 
 
 X Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii 140. 
 
 § Griffiere etched fome plates of birds and beafts after Barlow. Sailmaker, 
 Boon, Danckers and Streater, the painters, etched fome things. 
 
54- Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 A print of an eagle foaring in the air with a cat in it's talons. This 
 event Barlow faw in Scotland, as he was drawing views there. The 
 cat's refiftance brought both animals to the ground, where Barlow 
 took them up. 
 
 R. * G A Y W O O D 
 
 Who is mentioned both by Mr. Evelyn and Sanderfon, was fcholar, 
 and clofe imitator of Hollar, and though I do not know that heat- 
 tempted views, may in his heads be miftaken for that mafter. Indeed 
 that is not faying that he arrived at great excellence ; yet he far out- 
 fhone many I have mentioned. He engraved the couchant Venus of 
 Titian with a Spaniard playing on an organ, a fine picture of king 
 Charles's collection and fince of lord Cholmondeley's. The other 
 works of Gaywood are portraits, of, Mary queen of Scots with a 
 crofs in her hand ; W. Drummond of Hawthornden the Scottifh 
 hiftorian, a fmall oval, with his arms : Edward Cocker, who feems 
 to have been an -f- engraver too ; there are two different prints of 
 this man, one of them very neat. Sir Bulftrode Whitelocke : fir 
 George Cooke : William Fairfax, with fix Englifh verfes : Hol- 
 bein : James Hodder, writing-mafter : William Leybourn: Margue- 
 rite Lemon, Vandyck's miftrefs, with French verfes : countefs of 
 Portland : John Playford •, there are three different prints of this man, 
 by GaywooJ, Loggan, and Van Hove : Matthew Stephenfon, an 
 
 humble author ; to this print are thefe gingling rhimes, 
 
 The 
 
 * Gr.ywood has not fet his chriftian name at length to one of his prints. 
 Vertue fays that to fome of them he put quondam Difcipulus Wen. Hollar. 
 
 + Cocker publifhed 14 or 15 copy-books, and engraved his own writing, 
 fome of it on filver plates. See Biogr. Brit, artic. Bales. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 55 
 
 The printer's profit, not my pride, 
 
 Hath this idea fignify'd, 
 
 For he pufh'd out the merry Play, 
 
 And Mr. Gaywood made it gay *. 
 Cuthbert Sidenham, 1654 : lady Eleanor Temple, with four quib- 
 bling verfes, 1658: Vandyck •, Charles (II.) king of Scots •, Lipfius; 
 Mahomet ; monf. de Balzac ; doctor Fauftus ; a head of Chriftina 
 (probably imaginary) for Fowler's Troubles of Sweden and Poland ; 
 and a few more. - 
 
 DUDLEY and CARTER, 
 
 Were difciples of Hollar ; the former, like Gaywood, wrote himfelf 
 quondam difcipulus. His molt confiderable work was the fet of 
 etchings for the Life of JEfop, prefixed to the latter editions of 
 Barlow's JEfop. Robert Pricke was another of his fcholars. 
 
 Mr. FRANCIS PLACE, 
 
 A gentleman of Yorkshire, had a turn to moft of the beautiful arts. 
 He painted, defigned and etched ; Vertue had heard that he learned 
 the latter of Hollar, and has preferved a letter that he received from 
 Mr. Place, in anfwer to his enquiries into that fact and about Hollar 
 himfelf, of whom he relates on his own knowledge many particulars 
 which Vertue has inferted in his life of that artift, but denies his 
 having been inftructed by him. Mr. Place was a younger fon of 
 Mr. Rowland Place of Dinfdale in the county of Durham, and was 
 
 placed 
 '* A better pun on this word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which it was 
 faid, made Gay rich, and Rich gay. 
 
56 Catalogue of Engravers* 
 
 placed as clerk to an attorney in London, where he continued till 
 1665, in which year going into a fhop, the officers came to Ihut up 
 the houfe, on its having the plague in it. This occafioned his leav- 
 ing London, and gave him an opportunity of quitting a profeffion 
 that was contrary to his inclination, and of following the roving life 
 he loved, and the arts for which he had talents. Ralph Thorefby, 
 in his Ducatus Leodienfis *, often mentions Mr. Place with great 
 encomiums, and fpecifies various prefents that he made to his Mu- 
 feum. He tells us too that Mr. Place difcovered an earth for, and a 
 method of, making porcelaine-f, which he put in practice at the 
 manor-houfe of York, of which manufacture he gave Thorefby a fine 
 mug. From the fame account we learn that Mr. Place difcovered 
 porphyry at mount Sorril in Leicefterfhire, of which he had a piece 
 to grind colours on. This author fpecifies views of Tinmouth-caftle 
 and lighthoufe ; the cathedral of York, churches and profpecls of 
 
 Leeds, 
 * P. 196, 466, 477, 492, 497. At the end of this account of Leeds is a 
 catalogue of Thorefby's own Mufeum, nowdifperfed, in which were fome valu- 
 able, and many foolifh curiofities. Of the latter fort was a knife taken from one 
 of the Mohawks 1710, fo ferioufly was that vifion believed at that time by grave 
 people. Another of his rarities was a leaf of an Ananas ; that fruit, now fo com- 
 mon here, was fcarce enough in the year 17 15 to have a leaf of it preferved in a 
 repofitory. The book itfelf is very diverting. Thorefby, like other folemn and 
 retired trifiers, thought the world interefted in knowing what ever related to 
 them. Afhmole's Diary is ridiculoufly curious. Thorefby informs us that in 
 his youth he was uneafy when he firft obferved that he had not the ufual quan- 
 tity of fpittle that others have, p. 615. What a brave difcovery was printing 
 for men who wifhed to record how often they fneezed ! 
 
 f His pottery coft him much money : he attempted it folely from a turn to 
 experiment, but one Clifton of Pontefract took the hint from him and made a 
 fortune by it. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 57 
 
 Leeds, drawn and etched, and a mezzotinto of Henry Gyles the 
 glafs-painter, executed by Mr. Place. He alfo fcraped three plates 
 of John Moyfer, efq-, of Beverley, his particular friend, of Thomas 
 Comber dean of Durham, and of bifhop Crew ; the laft is finely 
 executed. Many fketches of caftles and views which he took in 
 Wales, and of various other places in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 
 feveral of them well finifhed, are extant, and have been engraved. 
 A view of Scarborough-caftle was drawn as late as the year 1715. 
 His prints are very fcarce ; he feldom refided in London, and drew 
 only for his amufement, feldom compleating what he undertook, and 
 in his rambles painting, drawing, and engraving occafionally. In 
 the reign of Charles II. he was offered a penfion of 500 /. a year to 
 draw the royal navy, but declined accepting it, as he could not en- 
 dure confinement or dependence. In Thorefby's Topography of 
 Leeds are fome churches drawn by Place. Ames mentions a print 
 by him, which I have, of Richard Thompfon, from a painting of 
 Zoufl: : it is boldly done. Another is of Sterne, archbifhop of York. 
 He alfo did fome plates of birds, v. vol. iii. of Anecdotes of Paint- 
 ing,- article, GrifEere ; and the figures for Godartius's book of in- 
 fects. Mr. Place died in 1728, and his widow, by whom he had a 
 daughter married to Wadham Wyndham, efq ; quitting the manor- 
 houfe in York, difpofed of his paintings, among which were an ad- 
 mired piece of fowls, others of flowers and fifli, unfinifhed. Mr. 
 Scott of Crown-court has a piece of goofeberries on a very dark 
 ground, which Mr. Place often ufed, and a jug of his earthen-ware. * 
 There are two heads of Mr. Place extant, one ^by himfelf, the face 
 enly finifhed, and another by Murray. 
 
 P J. S A V A G E 
 
 * The additions to this article were communicated by a near relation of Mr, 
 Place, 
 
58 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 J". SAVAGE 
 
 May be ftiled engraver to a fet of Heroes, whom Prior calls the un- 
 fortunate brave. No country preferves the images and anecdotes of 
 fuch worthies with fuch care as England. The rigour of the law is 
 here a pafiport to fame. From the infringers of Magna Charta to the 
 collectors on the road, from Charles I. to Maclean, every fufferer be- 
 comes the idol of the mob. Some of the refemblances preferved by 
 Savage are of men who fell in a better caufe •, bifhop Latimer, Alger- 
 non Sidney, Alderman Cornifh, the earl of Argyle, fir Edmondbury 
 * Godfrey, fir Thomas Armftrong and the duke of Monmouth. He 
 has alio done heads of John Gadbury, fir Henry Chauncy, fir Henry 
 Pollexfen ; f John a Lafco •, Arthur earl of Torrington ; J Ch, 
 Leigh, M. D. fome coins in Evelyn's Numifmata, and two plates for 
 Guidott's Therms Britannicse. 
 
 Mr. 
 
 * In Thcrefby's Mufeum, mentioned above, was a blood-coloured ribband 
 with Death's head, fwords, &c. infcribed, " In memory of fir Edmondbury 
 Godfrey, murthered the 12th of October 1678." A ftrong piflure of the 
 height to which the rage of party was carried ! 
 
 t For this plate Savage received three pounds, and the fame for Latimer. 
 
 % This do£tor ought not to be forgotten for his tranflation of a Latin epitaph, 
 which he has given in his Hiftory of Lancafliire : the latter part of the inscrip- 
 tion runs thus; 
 
 " L. Julius Maximus 
 
 Alas Sar. Conjux 
 
 Conjugi incomparabili 
 
 Et Filio Patris pientis 
 
 fimo et Socerae tena 
 
 ciffimoe Memoriae p." 
 
 Thus 
 
anar&v&i 
 
 J-'f /& ixruurrruin i/ctec-A 
 
 Trjl^cis Place. ^ William Lodge. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 5 g 
 
 Mr. WILLIAM LODGE 
 
 Was fon of Mr. William Lodge of Leeds, merchant, by Elizabeth 
 daughter of Mr. John Sykes, eldeft fon of Richard Sykes, efq; one of 
 the firft aldermen of that town [then * newly made a corporation by 
 Charles I.] where our artift was born July 4, 1649, and inherited an 
 eftate of 300/. a year. From fchool he was fent to Jefus-college 
 Cambridge, and thence to LincolnVinn; but more pleafurable ftudies 
 fuiting his genius, he attended Thomas lord Bellafis, afterwards vif- 
 count Falconberg, in his embaffy to Venice, where meeting with Gia- 
 como Barri's Viaggio Pittorefco, wherein are particularized the chief 
 pictures in Italy, and an account of Canon Settala's famous cabinet at 
 Milan, Mr. Lodge tranflated it into Englifh, and added of his own 
 graving heads of the moft eminent painters and a map of Italy printed 
 in octavo, 1679. While on his travels he drew various views, which 
 he afterwards etched. Returned to England he affifted Dr. Lifter of 
 York in drawing rare fhells andfoffils, which the doctor tranfmitted 
 to the Royal Society and are inferted in their Tranfaclions, particularly, 
 the Table of Snails, N°. 855 the Trochitce andEntrochi, N°. 100 ; 
 the Aftroites, N°. 112, the drawings of which were in Thorefby's 
 Mufeum, from whom Vertue received thefe memoires. Healfo drew 
 for Dr. Lifter thirty-four different forts of fpiders. There was then at 
 York a club of virtuofi, compofed of Dr. Martin Lifter, John Lam- 
 bert, 
 Thus Englifhed by Dr. Leigh, bookiii. p. 5. 
 
 " Julius Maximus & Alas a Sarmatian, wife to her incomparable hufband, 
 
 erects this to perpetuate the memory of Simo, the fori of a pious father 
 
 and his father-in-law." 
 * Anno 1626. 
 
60 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 bert, efq; Thomas Kirke, efq; Mr. Lodge and Mr. Francis Place. Be- 
 tween the two laft congenial artifts was a ftriut friendfhip. Once on 
 their rambles, on which they often ftaid three or four months, as they 
 were taking views in Wales, they were fufpected for Jefuits [it was at 
 the time of the Popifh plot] feized, imprifoned, and not releafed but on 
 the appearance of fome friends from Chefter. Thorefby, who amidft 
 his puerile or anile ideas could not avoid the fuperftition of dreams, 
 related to my author, that Lodge being on a fifning-party at Mr. 
 Boulter's at Stank near Harwood, dreamed [it feems he had never 
 dreamed before, and Thorefby quotes Mr. Locke * for another mo- 
 noneirift] that he fhould be buried at Harwood-church. This vexed 
 him as he had deftined his fepulture at Gifburn near Craven by his 
 mother. A dream is nothing without the completion : Lodge died 
 at Leeds ; but as the herfe paffed by Harwood the carriage broke; the 
 coffin was damaged, and the dream happily fulfilled, the corpfe beino- 
 interred in the choir there Aug. 27, 1689. One captain Fifher wrote 
 upon Mr. Lodge's -{-picture, " Parifiis, Burdegalas, Romae, ac poftre- 
 mo Venetiis humanioribus ftudiisjuxta biennium verfatus, jam tandem 
 honeflis litteris et artibus excukus, natale folum petiit 1671, astatis 23, 
 jam pridem hofpitii Liucolnienfis admifio focio." 
 
 Mr. Lodge's works, befides thofe I have mentioned, are, 
 
 View of Gaeta, the Mole and Plancus's tomb. 
 
 Pozzuolo, Caracalla's Mole, Baiie, &c. 
 
 Ruins of the amphitheatre and aqueduct at Minturnum. 
 
 Promontory of Circe, temple of the fun, &c, 
 
 Lambeth-houfe from the Thames. 
 
 Weftminfter- 
 
 * Eflay, vol. i. p. 74. 
 
 + The pi£lure from whence the print here given of him is taken, was rec- 
 koned very like, and was painted in Italy, and coft 30 guineas. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 61 
 
 Weftminfter-hall and the abbey. 
 
 SherifF-Hutton-caftle. 
 
 Clifford's-tower. 
 
 View of York, from the water-houfe to the ruins of the manor- 
 houfe. 
 
 Eefides thefe which were fmall, he did fome large plates, of 
 
 The Pont du Gard in Languedoc. To this he figns "WL. 
 
 The Monument. This is reckoned the beft draught of it. 
 
 Leeds, with the ruins of Kirkftal and Fountain abbies, with a map 
 of the Wapentakes of Shireach and Morley, and a profpect of 
 Wakefield. 
 
 Newcaftle upon Tine, with lefTer views of Tinmouth-caftle, Aln- 
 wic, Holy-ifland, Berwick upon Tweed, Carlifie and Barnard-caftle ; 
 all which were finilhed, and a fpecimen printed off, before the plate 
 was fpoiled by an accident. In the middle was defigned a map of 
 Northumberland, and at bottom a profpect of Durham of the fame 
 dimenfions with that of Newcaftle. 
 
 Edinburgh, Glafgow, andDyfart; different plates. 
 
 Oliver Cromwell and his page; dedicated to the protector. 
 
 Samuel Malines, after a picture by Claret. 
 
 He painted fome few things from the life in oil. 
 
 WILLIAM SHERWIN, 
 
 r ? Sot 
 Hi fine 
 
 Son of a divine of the fame names, is the only perfon whom 
 id to have been royal engraver by patent, which himfelf, 
 on a print of his father, prefixed to the latter's clavis, tells * us he was. 
 
 Q« By 
 
 * V, Ames, p. 157. 
 
62 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 By what intereft he obtained this diftin&ion does not appear; certainly 
 by no great excellence in his profefiion. Nor are his works numerous-, 
 though he exercifed his art for many years. Ames mentions about fix- 
 teen heads by him, and there is another, which he has omitted, of John 
 Gadbury the almanac-maker, who has been reprefented by no lefs 
 than four artifls. Sherwin perhaps engraved other plates, befides 
 portraits. He has done two of Charles II. one, whole-length, pre- 
 fixed to Afhmole's Order of the Garter, The firft works I find by 
 him are, William Bridge and William Salmon, both in 1670; the 
 lateft, judge Powel in 171 1. The regular Architect of the general 
 Rule of the five Orders, by Vignola, with Additions by Michael 
 Angelo, done into Englifh by J. Leake, was printed for W. Sherwin, 
 engraver, 1669. 
 
 JOSEPH NUTTING 
 
 Probably commenced engraver about the time of the reftoration, as 
 not long after he did a plate of Mary duchefs of Beaufort from a 
 picture of Walker, and therefore it is likely that he was of fome emi- 
 nence. A head of Matthew Mead, father of Dr. Mead the phyfi- 
 cian, is the belt thing I have feen of him : his works are few ; as fir 
 John Cheke, from an old picture ; James Bonnel, Mr. Locke, 
 George Parker almanac- maker, and three of the family of Rawlin- 
 fon ; the lad, dated 1709. He alfo engraved a frontifpiece to Green- 
 hill's Art of Embalming, and a head of the author from a picture by 
 Murray. 
 
 We now come to one of the moft capital engravers that has appear- 
 ed in this country. The number of thofe, whofe works deferve in- 
 
 trinfic 
 

 ^?/iJ-e Mtruvtf. 
 
 ^/i^e h*- 
 
 ^.t5a*t*ie*~tnati ,fi~*tf/t. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 63 
 
 trinfic regard, abftracted from their fcarcity, or the curiofity of the 
 perfons and objects reprefented, is very fmall, and foon enumerated. 
 The family of Pafs were Angularly neat : Hollar ftill furpaffed them, 
 and in branches to which their art never extended. Vorft and Vof- 
 terman fhone in a higher ftyle. Lombart added roundnefs to delica- 
 cy, and was even a great performer if compared with mofl of his fuc- 
 ceffors, of whom Robert White feems to have declined the leaft„ 
 John Smith carried the new-difcovered art of mezzotinto to the great- 
 eft perfection we have feen it attain. The laft John Faber in fome 
 things was, tho' far inferior, a good workman. Kirkall, commonly 
 a wretched labourer, had lingular merit in one branch that will be 
 mentioned. Mr. Strange, afhamed of the creeping and venal ftyle to 
 which the art was funk in Britain, has given us the works of Italian 
 mafters with a tool worthy of Italian engravers. But yet there had 
 been one Englishman, who without the timid perfection of French 
 mafters, had fhown, that foftnefs and force, freedom and finifhing, 
 were compatible, and that the effect of chiaro fcuro did not depend 
 upon unblended maffes of white and black ; this was 
 
 WILLIAM FAITHORNE. 
 
 * He was born in London, in what year is f uncertain, and bred 
 under Peake, % painter and printfeller, afterwards knighted, with 
 
 whom 
 
 * This account is taken from a MS. of Vertue, who received the particulars 
 from Mr. Bagford, librarian to lord Oxford, and intimate with Faithorne, and 
 from another of his friends, Mr. W. Hill Charke. 
 
 f V. fecond volume of this work. 
 
 J Graham fays he was about feventy-five when he died. Engl. School ,- 
 P- W- 
 
64 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 whom he worked for three or four years before the eruption of the 
 civil war, and whom he accompanied into the king's fervice. Being 
 made prifoner at Bafing-houfe, Faithorne was brought to London and 
 confined in Alderfgate, where he reverted to his profefllon and among 
 other heads did a fmall one of the firft Villiers duke of Buckingham 
 in the manner of Mellan. After much follicitation by his friends, he 
 was permitted to * retire to France, where he found protection and 
 encouragement from the Abbe de Marolles, a fingular man, who, 
 with (lender competence of parts, drummed and trumpeted for learn- 
 ing and the am, till he was admitted into the proceffion. His me- 
 moires are their memoires, and one reads them, tho' they inform one 
 of little more than that he was a good man, and acquainted with fe- 
 veral that were great -f\ J About the year 1650 Faithorne returned 
 to England •, and foon after married the fifter of one whom my au- 
 thors call the famous captain Cround. By her he had two fons and 
 a daughter, Henry, bred a bookfeller, William to his father's pro- 
 fefllon. Faithorne now fet up in a new fhop, at the fign of the fhip 
 next to the drake, oppofite to the Palfgrave's-head-tavern without 
 Temple-bar, where he not only followed his art, but fold Italian, 
 Dutch and § Englifh prints, and worked for bookfellers, particularly 
 
 Mr. 
 * Graham fay", he was baniflied for refufing to take the oaths to Oliver, 
 but by the account of his two friends whom I tranferibe, he returned to 
 England before the protectorate, which agrees better with a head I fhall 
 mention prefentlv, and with a fhepherdefs which he did at Paris in 1649. 
 Graham adds that he ftudied fcveral years under Champagne, which is alio 
 doubtful. 
 
 f He publifhed a lift of all that had made him prefents of their works. 
 
 J Bayfield's head is dated 1654. 
 
 § There are fome to which is fpecified, fold by JVilliam Faithorne. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 65 
 
 Mr. Royfton, the king's bookfeller, Mr. Martin his brother-in-law 
 in St. PauPs-church-yard, and Mr. William Peake a ftationer and 
 printf'eller on Snow-hill, the younger brother of his old rnafter. Some 
 time after the year 1680, Faithorne quitted his fhop, and retired to a 
 more private life in Printing- houfe-yard Black friars, ftill engraving, 
 but chiefly painting from the life in crayons, in which branch he had 
 formerly received inftruflions at Paris from Nanteuil. To thefe 
 portraits I fuppofe we mud refer fuch of his prints as have W. 
 Faithorne pinxit-, though he alfo drew in * black and white, as John 
 Aubrey in the Mufeum at Oxford. His crayon-heads, mentioned by 
 his biographers, were Mr. Lepiper the painter, col. J. Ayres, Mr- 
 Allen, Mr. J. Smith, f Mr. Sturt and Mr. Seddon, and moft of the 
 noted writing-mafters. The laft he undertook was of Mr. Jo. Oliver, 
 furveyor of the works at St. Paul's. The misfortunes of his fon Wil- 
 liam broke % his fpirits, though he was arobuft and vigorous man ; a 
 lingring confumption put an end to his life. He was buried near his 
 wife in St. Anne's Blackfriars, May 13, 1691. Befides his pictures 
 and plates, he publifhed his Art of Graving § in 1662, dedicating it 
 
 R to 
 
 * Graham fays alfo in miniature, of which there are many inftances. 
 
 f Sturt's head was in lord Oxford's collection. 
 
 % He was once cured by Afhmole of an Iliaca paffio. See Diary of the latter, 
 p. 31, who tells us that he paid Faithorne feven pounds for engraving his 
 portrait, p. 33. 
 
 § The whole title is, The Art of Graveing and Etching, wherein is exprefr. 
 the true Way of Graveing in Copper. Alfo the Manner and Method of that 
 famous Callot and Mr. Bofle, in their feveral Ways of Etching. 
 
66 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 to his matter fir Robert Peake. His friend Flatman * confecrated a 
 poem to his memory, concluding, 
 
 A Faithorne fculpfit is a charm can fave 
 
 From dull oblivion and a gaping grave. 
 I fhall diftinsuiifh the works of Faithorne into five clafles; firft, his 
 fine prints; fecond, his middling, of which feveral approach to the 
 firft fort ; fome to, three, his bad •, four, his hiftoric •, five, fuch as 
 I have not feen, but many no doubt belong to the firft lift. 
 
 Class i. 
 
 His own head, looking over his moulder, long hair. 
 
 Sir William Pafton, haronet, 1659. A plump gentleman, very 
 long hair, filk mantle over one fhoulder. Every part of this print, 
 which I think the beft of his works, is finifhed in the higheft per- 
 fection. 
 
 ] ,ady Pafton; fame year ; probably after a picture of Vandyck. 
 
 Margaret Smith, widow of Thomas Smith, and wife of fir Ed- 
 ward Herbert ; from Vandyck. A whole length of her by the fame 
 mailer was in the Wharton collection, afterwards in my father's, and 
 now mine. 
 
 Montagu Bertie fecond earl of Lindfey, from Vandyck. 
 
 William Sanderfon, astat. fuje 68, 1658. Souft pinxit. This head 
 is prefixed to his Graphice, and does honour both to painter and en- 
 graver. There are two of thefe heads fomewhat different. 
 
 Carew 
 
 * Flatman has two copies of commendatory verfes prefixed to Sanderfon's 
 Graphice. The firft, on the fine head prefixed to the work, declares, 
 He outfays all, who lets vou underftand 
 The head is Sanderfon's, Faithome's the hand. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 67 
 
 Carew Reynell, armiger. Young man •, long hair, fhort band tied. 
 
 Samuel Collins, doctor of phyfic, set. 6j. W. Faithorne ad vivum 
 delin et fculp. 
 
 Anne Bridges countefs of Exeter, from Vandyck. 
 
 John Kerfey, born at Bodicot, &c. 1616. Mathematical books. 
 Souft pinx. 1672. 
 
 John La Motte, efq; citizen of London. Born 1577, deceafed 
 
 l6 55- 
 
 John Vifcount Mordaunt. Head in armour, oval frame furround- 
 ed with arms, in the manner of prints of the Scottifh nobility. Titles 
 in Italian. 
 
 Thomas earl of Elgin, set. 62, 1662. Old man, with long hair, 
 holding his mantle with his right hand. 
 
 Mary, daughter of fir Edward Alfton, wife of fir James Langham. 
 
 Henry Carey earl of Monmouth. 
 
 John Pordage, philofopher, phyfician, divine. 
 
 Thomas Killigrew, in a fur cap, fitting at a table, on which lie 
 feveral of his works. Head of Charles I. hung up, a dog by the 
 table. W. Sheppard pinx. 
 
 George Rodolphus Weckkerlin, set. 50. Mytins pinx. 
 
 Thomas Stanley, octagon frame. P. Lilly pinx. 
 
 Robert Bayfield, set, 25, 1 654, in a large hat, four Englifh. verfes. 
 
 Another of the fame perfon, without a hat, set. 27. 
 
 Francis Rous, provoft of Eton, large hat, set. 77, 1656, four 
 Englifh verfes. 
 
 Small head of a man with long hair and little band, in an oval, 
 with fix verfes, infcribed, J. S. Wright, which fhow the perfon re- 
 prefented to have been an author, 
 
 Another 
 
68 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 Another fmall head of a man, looking off, long hair curled ; four 
 Englifli verfes, infcribed, G. W. It is the portrait of Noah Bridges, 
 clerk of the parliament. 
 
 Sir Henry Spelman, ruff and point night-cap. 
 
 Thomas Hobbes, jet. y6. En quam modice habitat philofophia. 
 
 One Loveday, in an octagon frame, with fix Englifli verfes, de- 
 vices, and French mottoes. 
 
 A young clergyman, ditto, no name. Arms, five crefcents on a 
 crofs; ast. 28, 1662 *. 
 
 Samuel Leigh, young man's head. Arms, ast. fuas 15, 1661. In- 
 cipe & perrice, Domine. 
 
 Henrietta Maria, with a viel. Royal arms, Scotland in the firfl 
 quarter. Done at Paris in the Manner of Mellan. 
 
 A fine head of Smith, writing-mailer, drawn by Faithorne, but 
 engraved by Vanderbank. 
 
 Thomas Mace, prefixed to his book of Mufic : Faithorne fub- 
 fcribed for three copies. 
 
 Henry More, fitting under a tree in a landfcape, half-length. 
 
 Sir Orlando Bridgman, with the purfe, half-length. 
 
 Sir John Fortefcue -f. 
 
 Robert Boyle, in an oval, with an air-pump. 
 
 Elias Afhmole, buft in a niche. He paid Faithorne feven pounds 
 for the plate. 
 
 William Oughtred, aet. 83. in the manner of Hollar, and as good. 
 
 John Wallis, S. T. D. prefixed to his Mechanica. 
 
 Head 
 
 * Ames, p. 62. mentions a fine head by Faithorne of Edward Ellis of 
 Baliol-college, to which this print and arms anfwer. 
 
 t This and the preceding are in Dugdale's Origines Judiciales. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 69 
 
 Head of a young man, in his own hair, cravat tied with a rib- 
 band before •, mantle. Arms, a iion rampant crowned, within a 
 bordure. Half-meet. 
 
 A large emblematic meet-print of Oliver Cromwell, whole length, 
 in armour, with variety of devices and mottoes. This very fcarce 
 print is in my poffeffion : I .never faw another proof of it. 
 
 Class 2. 
 
 Henry Somerfet marquis of Worcefter, in armour with a trun- 
 cheon *. I have a proof of this, on which the titles are finely writ- 
 ten by Faithorne hirnfelf, otherwife the plate 'had no infcription. 
 
 Queen Catherine, in the remarkable habit in which fhe arrived, 
 long dark hair curled in rows like a perriwig, and fpreading wider to 
 her moulders ; (trait point handkerchief, black gown laced, the fleeves 
 flamed and coming down to the middle of her arm, over which are 
 turned-up broad round ruffles, white tabby petticoat laced, over a 
 farthingale, gloves in her left hand. 
 
 Barbara countefs of Caftlemaine, half length, leaning on her left 
 
 hand, in an oval frame. 
 
 S Chriftopher 
 
 * This print has the garter, though it was never given to the marquis. 
 Probably it was promifed ; and the plate wanting the titles, looks if lord 
 Somerfet died before it was finifhed, and before the promife could be com- 
 pleated through the misfortunes both of the king and the marquis. I once 
 took this for a print of his fon Edward, and fo did Venue; but it is evi- 
 dently copied from an older print done when Henry was only earl, and 
 which has bis name, and was fold by Stent. In that print there is much 
 Jefs appearance of a -ribbanJ ; fo fmall a bit, that it might not be intended 
 for the garter, and Faithorne by miltake might fupply the reft and the 
 George as he has done. 
 
70 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 Chriflopher Simpfon (a mailer of mufic) J. Carwarden pinx. a 
 name I have feen no where elfe. There is a fmaller print of the fame 
 perfon, but much inferior. 
 
 Prince Rupert, difhevelled hair, ribband with a large knot round 
 his neck, broad fafh laced, a remarkable print, G. Dobfon pinx. 
 
 Small head of fome author, in a Roman habit •, fix Englifh lines. 
 
 Charles I. fmall head in an oval frame with cornucopias and ftone 
 work ; feems a head-piece to fome book. 
 
 John Bulwer, long Latin infcription. 
 
 Edward Boys, S. T. B. st. 66. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Gilly, fmall head in oval. This plate is fometime9 
 infcribed, Hannah Wooley, but the beft impreffions have the name 
 of Gilly. 
 
 A woman whole length, fmall, in fhort veft, long petticoat, a cloak 
 with loops hanging behind. Under the figure, Mariana 1655. 
 
 Mrs. Katherine Philips, a bud ■, on the pedeftal, Orinda. 
 
 Mr. Abraham Cowley, W. Faithorne fculp.1687. Another fmaller, 
 enbufte ; a third to his Latin poems. 
 
 Richard Carpenter, in the fame frame a profile, out of the mouth 
 of which proceeds an animal's head breathing fire. Four Latin lines. 
 
 Francis Gliffon, Dr. of phyfic, set. j$. 
 
 William Gouge, set. yg, 1653. 
 
 Valentine Greatrakes, the ftroker ; ftroking a boy's head. See an 
 account of him in St. Evremont. 
 
 John Mayow, in the habit of a doctor of phyfic. 
 
 Sir Richard Fanfhaw. Died at Madrid 1666. 
 
 Buff of Lucian in a niche, Greek motto, ten Englifh verfes. 
 
 Dr. Harvey, buft on a pedeftal. 
 
 Charles II. round the frame, Honi foit qui mal y penfe. 
 
 Two 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 7 1 
 
 Two others larger, one in armour, with fix Englifh verfes ; the 
 other in robes of the garter, the royal arms difpofed at the four 
 corners. 
 
 Sir Thomas Fairfax. Rob. Walker pinx. in the manner of Mellan. 
 
 John Milton, set 62, 1670. Guil. Faithorne ad vivum delin. et 
 fculpfit. 
 
 Francis More, ferjeant at law. 
 
 John Hacket bifhop of Litchfield and Coventry. Four Englifh 
 verfes. 
 
 Cardinal Richelieu ; prefixed to the Englifh tranflation of his life 
 by John Doddington. 
 
 Monfieur de Thevenot, whole length, in an Afiatic habit. 
 
 Henry Terne, with an account of him in Latin. W. Sheppard 
 pinx. 
 
 Lord chief juftice Anderfon, Et. 76. 
 
 Sir Henry Coker, set. 48, 1669, Account of him in Englifh. 
 
 Sir Bulftrode Whitelocke in armour. * 
 
 Charles earl of Carlifle, in armour, octagon frame. 
 
 John Ogilby, P. Lilly pinx. 
 
 Horace lord Vere, fir Francis Vere, and fir John Ogle, one eye. 
 
 Olivarius Britannicus heros, in armour on horfeback. 
 
 Oli^arius primus, 7 
 
 Don John de Caftro, the fourth viceroy of India. 
 
 Samuel Bolton, S. S. Theol. D. in oval ; four Latin verfes. 
 
 Class 
 * The reafon of Whitlocke being drawn in armour, though a lawyer, was 
 
 riis being deputy-lieutenant of the militia, in which capacity he adled in the 
 
 civil war. 
 
 t This and the preceding belong to a little book, called, Parallelum Olivae j 
 
 the frontifpiece to which was alfo executed by Faithorne. 
 
7 2 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 Class 3. 
 
 Thefe do not deferve to be particularized. I fhall barely name 
 them : Richard Hooker ; Edmund Caftelli ; Ricraft, a merchant ; 
 the emperor Marcus Aurelius ; Henry Lawes •, bimop Brownrig ; 
 Robert, fecond earl of ElTex •, Charles I. in armour •, John Ray. 
 Dominicus Contareno, Dux Venetiarum. 
 
 Class 4, and 5. 
 
 I join thefe, as I have feen very few of his historic prints or title- 
 pages, but will feperate them by placing the heads I have not, laft. 
 
 Parallelum Olivas. Gods in council at top ; Pallas and Neptune 
 on the fides. 
 
 An emblematic print ; a pilgrim fitting and writing ; a pyramid 
 before him with figures and infcriptions •, Venice at a diftance. This 
 is a frontifpiece to Pordage's book, whom I have mentioned before. 
 
 TEneas killing Turnus, for Ogilby's Virgil. 
 
 Hero and Leander, two prints, for David Whiteford's tranflation 
 of Mufjeus. 
 
 Thomas Killigrew and the lord Coleraine, the princely fliepards. 
 I iuppofe this was for a mafk. 
 
 Mercurius Cliriftianus. 
 
 Mercurius Rufticus. 
 
 Our Saviour on the crofs, and St. Benedict. 
 
 The afiembly-man. 
 
 Lucafta, for Lovelace's poems. 
 
 A plan of London and Weftminfter in fix flieets and two half 
 fheets. Publifhed and furveyed by Newcourt, 1658. 
 
 Chrift 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 73 
 
 Chrilt after Raphael. I believe this was finifhed by Fillian. 
 
 A Madonna and Jofeph, with a lamb, after La Hire : done while 
 Faithorne was at Paris. 
 
 Title-plates, to Taylor's Life of Chrift, extremely fine •, to the 
 Compleat Embaffador; to Collins's Anatomy; to Jerye's Copy- 
 book ; to Hooke's Micrographia ; and to the Philofophical Trans- 
 actions. Some of thefe may be only heads already mentioned ; the 
 lift I tranfcribe is imperfectly taken. 
 
 The ftory of Mr. Crofs and Wahorne. I do not know what this 
 means ; I fuppofe it is the duel of Mr. Crofts and Jeffery Hudfon. 
 
 Charles II. on his throne; archbifhop Sheldon, lord Clarendon and 
 Monke duke of Albemarle, ftanding. Some birds in Barlow's book. 
 
 Frontifpiece to the Englifh tranfiation of Mezerai's Hiftory of 
 France ; poorly executed. 
 
 In Taylor's Lif§ of Chrift, the four evangelifts, and feveral hiftoric 
 prints in the book ; fome in the ftyle of Goltzius, others of Hollar : 
 the Annunciation, in his own manner, very good. 
 
 Frontifpiece to Horneck's Crucified Jefus. 
 
 Ditto, to an old edition of Glanville on Witches. 
 
 Six cuts to Sleiden's Hiftory of the Reformation in Germany, the 
 Englifh edition. 
 
 Charles II. fitting between Sheldon and fir Orlando Bridgman; for 
 the prefent State of England. 
 
 Frontifpiece to Legrand's Philofophia. 
 
 Some plates for the Philofophical Tranfa&ions. 
 
 HEADS. 
 
 Henry VIII. Richard Lovelace ; Charles II. no name of engraver ; 
 one of his firft works ; Charles II. infcribed, This is Charles the firft's 
 
 T- heir ; 
 
7+ Catalogue of E?igravers. 
 
 heir; * Endymion Porter ; James earl of Perth, drawn by Faithorne, 
 graved by Vanderbank ; fir Bevil Granville ; an odlavo -f- print, ex 
 dono Rich. Hacket Litchf. and Cov. epifc. 1670, infervi Deo & 
 ketare. Vertue mentions a head of the protector dedicated to him by 
 Lud. Lambermontius a phyfician, with medals at the four corners of 
 David, Solomon, Alexander, and Julius Casfar, which, though with- 
 out any name of engraver, he believed was Faithorne's work. Vil- 
 liers duke of Bukingham, in the manner of Mellan •, fir John Hof- 
 kins ; archbifhop Ufher, and a fmaller ; Roger earl of Caftlemain ; 
 Robert Henly, this is doubtful ; a man's head, no name, Latin in- 
 fcription, beginning, Quodcunque manus tua facere poteft ; fir 
 James Harrington; Katherine lady Harrington; Tobias Venner; 
 James duke of York ; John Prideaux bifhop of Worcefter ; Mr. 
 Richard Zebelina, teacher of fhort-hand ; Thomas Ofborne earl of 
 Dinby, William Bates ; Edward Stillingfleet, biflfbp of Worcefter ; 
 Quarles ; Tafiletta ; count Serena ; a bifhop of Durham ; general 
 Moncke ; fir William Davenant ; Dr. $ Charles Leigh ; Penelope 
 Herbert, doubtful; Dr. Colet, Glanvill, and J. Murcott. Thefe 
 three laft are prefixed to their works. Sir William Davenant's was 
 for the folio edition of his works. Ames gives fome other heads 
 with the name of Faithorne, but as he has always omitted to fpecify 
 whether engravings or mezzotintos, I fhould fuppofe them the latter, 
 and the works of our artift's fon 
 
 WILLIAM 
 
 * This is not authentic, but the head of the earl of Effex, infcribed with 
 Porter's name, and done in the manner of Mellan. 
 f It is the bifhop's own head. 
 1 This I am informed was engraved by Savage after Faithorne. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 75 
 
 WILLIAM FAITHORNE, junior, 
 
 Who worked only in that kind, and arrived to a good degree of ex- 
 cellence. He was negligent ; and I believe fell into diftreffes which 
 my authors fay afflicted his father and obliged himfelf to work for 
 bookfellers. He died about thirty years old, and was buried in the 
 church- yard of St. Martin's. His prints are, 
 
 Thomas Flatman, probably his 
 
 firfl work. 
 Mary Princefs of Orange. 
 Sir William Reade, * occulift to 
 
 queen Mary. 
 Mr. Dryden, in a long wig. 
 Queen Anne, with loofe hair, 
 
 garter- robes. 
 Prince George of Denmark. 
 Mr. Jeremiah Collier. 
 John More bifhop of Ely. 
 Frederic count of Schomberg. 
 Another, when duke. 
 John Cooper, a boy with a dog. 
 Lady Katherine Hyde. 
 Mrs. Mariamne Herbert. 
 The princefs of Hanover. 
 
 Charles XII. king of Sweden. 
 
 A lady half length with a bafket 
 of flowers, no name. 
 
 Lord Henry Scott. 
 
 Mr. James Thynne, a boy. 
 
 Mr. Richard Gomeldon. 
 
 Queen Mary. 
 
 Shadwell, the poet. 
 
 Sir Richard Haddock, fine. 
 
 Mrs. Plowden, with a garland, 
 gown lined with ftriped filk, 
 no name. 
 
 Another, but inftead of the gar- 
 land frie has a necklace in her 
 hand. 
 
 Sancta Maria Magdalena. 
 
 A Cupid, after Parmentier. 
 
 A death's 
 
 * He was a mountebank, knighted by queen Anne, and appointed her occu- 
 lift. See the Life of Mr. Nam. 
 
j 6 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 A death's head between a watch W. Bagwell. 
 
 and a rofein a glafs bottle. W. Boys. 
 
 A black giving fruit to a girl, in- J. Seddon. 
 
 fcribed, Beauty's Tribute. Mrs. Smith. 
 
 Others mentioned by Ames, are. Madam Nichols. This I believe 
 The princefs Sophia. is the fame with Mrs. Plowden. 
 
 JOHN FILLIAN 
 
 Was fcholar of the elder Faithorne, whofe head he copied, and was 
 living in 1676 •, but probably died young, as only two more plates 
 appear of his hand ; the heads of Thomas Cromwell earl of Eflex, 
 and of Paracelfus. Mr. Hill the painter was a difciple of Faithorne, 
 but never applied to engraving. 
 
 PETER LOMBART. 
 
 rr 7 Vertue had been able to trace no circumftances of his life, 
 iooo£ 
 
 1 but that he came from Paris and returned thither, the firft 
 
 certainly before the Revolution, as he graved a plate of the protector % 
 a frontilpiece to Ogilby's Virgil, publifhed in 1654 ; a title to a fmall 
 octavo in 1658 ; and fir Robert Stapleton's head for his Juvenal be- 
 fore 1660. In fact, he does not feem to have ftaid long here in the 
 reign of Charles II. a cut of Antoine * Grammont being dated at 
 
 Paris 
 * So Vertue. I fuppofe this was Antony firft duke of Grammont. Of 
 his brother Philibert, the famous count Grammont, I know no portrait, 
 tho' I have made the moft diligent and frequent inquiries poffible both in 
 England and France. The family have no picture of him either at Paris 
 or in the country ; nrr had Mariette, the old printfeller and collector at 
 Paris, ever feen a print of him. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 11 
 
 Paris in 1663. In 1660 he made a large tide-plate with many figures 
 for Field's bible, printed at Cambridge. His beft works are the 
 twelve half lengths from Vandyck, too well known to be particulari- 
 zed. His other plates 1 will repeat briefly, as I Hull thofe of iubfe- 
 quent engravers. As they grow nearer to our own times and are 
 common, to defcribe them is unneceffary. 
 
 Head of Walker, the painter ; Dr. Chriftopher Terne. 
 
 Samuel Malines. 
 Sir Henry Wootton. 
 Father Paul. 
 John Dethick. 
 Dr. Taylor. 
 Cartwright, author. 
 Alexander Rofs. 
 Thomas Taylor. 
 Brian Walton. 
 De la Fond, gazetteer of Amfter- 
 
 dam, 1667. 
 Johannes Dalkeus. 
 Charles Emanuel prince of Savoy, 
 
 1 67 1. This feems the lateft of 
 
 his works. 
 In Overton's catalogue of prints 
 
 dated 1672, is mentioned a 
 U book 
 
 * There is a frontifpiece to his 80 fermons, with his head and emblematic 
 figures, engraved by M. Merian, jun. but I luppofe not done in England. To- 
 Howel's Dodona's Grove the plates were executed by C. Merian, jun. 
 
 fomething different from that at 
 Oxford. 
 
 Charles I. on horfeback, from 
 Vandyck. Lombart afterwards 
 erafed the face, and inferted 
 that of Cromwell, and then 
 with the vicar of Bray's graver 
 reftored the king's. 
 
 Cromwell, half length in armour, 
 page tying his fcarf. 
 
 Sir Samuel Moreland. 
 
 John Ogilby. 
 
 Charles V. emperor. 
 
 Dr. Charlton. 
 
 William Davifon, phyfician. 
 
 Anne Hyde duchefs of York. 
 
 Dr. Donne*. 
 
78 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 book of the Seven Sciences, print which he calls Theophila, 
 
 eight plates by Lombart, but or Love-facrifice, with the de- 
 
 probably executed when he vice of the Trinity. It is the 
 
 was in England. title to Bendlowe's Divine Po- 
 
 Vertue alfo names an emblematic ems, fol. 1652. 
 
 JAMES GAMMON, 
 
 " Can hardly, fays Vertue, be called an engraver, " fo poor were his 
 performances ; yet one of them has preferved a memorable perfon, 
 Richard Cromwell, and authenticated a picture that I have of him by 
 Cooper. Gammon's few other heads are, fir Toby Matthews •, Ca- 
 therine of Braganza, and Mafcall the painter from a picture done by 
 himfelf. 
 
 ROBERT THACKER 
 
 Calling himielf defigner to the king, engraved a large print on a 
 plate of four fheets, of the cathedral at Salifbury. Morgan, of whom 
 I find as little, may be mentioned with him, having done a plan of 
 London for Ogilby. 
 
 WILLIAM SKILLMAN, 
 
 Living between 1660 and 1670, engraved the facade of Albemarle- 
 houfe, and a view of the Banquetting-houfe. 
 
 JOHN DUNSTALL 
 
 1662} Lived in the Strand and taught to draw. In 1662 he de- 
 5 figned and etched a book of flowers. His portraits are, 
 
 William 
 
-TfXamAars /cua". 
 
 PRI1CE RrPElT. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 79 
 
 William Gouge •, Samuel Clarke, martyrologift ; and king William 
 and queen Mary. 
 
 J. B R O W N, 
 
 r r\ A name that might well efcape Vertue, finceit is only found 
 i to a fingle print in Ames's catalogue of a fupervifor of excife 
 at Briftol •, the plate done at Tedbury. V. page 48. 
 
 PRINCE RUPERT. 
 
 It is a trite obfervation, that gunpowder was difcovered by a monk, 
 and printing by a foldier. It is an additional honour to the latter 
 profeflion to have invented mezzotinto. Few royal names appear at 
 the head of difeoveries ; nor is it furprifing. Though accident is the 
 moft common mother of invention, yet Genius being a neceffary 
 midwife to aid the cafual production, and ufiier it to exiftence, one 
 cannot expect that many of the leaft common rank fliould be bleft 
 with uncommon talents. Quicknefs to feize and fagacity to apply are 
 requifite to fortuitous difeoveries. Gunpowder or printing might 
 have fallen in many a prince's way, and the world have been ftill hap- 
 py or unhappy enough not to poffefs thofe arts. Born with the tafte 
 of an uncle whom his fword was not fortunate in defending, prince 
 Rupert was fond of thofe fciences which foften ard adorn a hero's 
 private hours, and knew how to mix them with his minutes of amufe- 
 ment, without dedicating his life to their purfuit, like us, who want- 
 ing capacity for momentous views, make ferious ftudy of what is only 
 the tranfitory occupation of a genius. Had the court of the firft 
 Charles been peacefull, how agreeably had the prince's congenial pro- 
 
 penfity 
 
80 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 penfity flattered and confirmed the inclination of his uncle ! How the 
 mule of arts would have repaid the patronage of the monarch, when 
 for his firft artift fhe would have prefented him with his nephew! How 
 different a figure did the fame prince make in a reign of diffimilar 
 complexion \ The philofophic warrior who could relax himfelf into 
 the ornament of a refined court, was thought a favage mechanic when 
 courtiers were only voluptuous wits. Let me tranfcribe a picture of 
 prince Rupert, drawn by a * man who was far from having the leaft 
 portion of wit in that age, who was fuperior to its indelicacy, and 
 who yet was lb overborn by its prejudices, that he had the complai- 
 fance to ridicule virtue, merit, talents. — But prince Rupert alas ! 
 was an awkward lover ! 
 
 " 11 etoit brave & vaillant jufqu' a la temerite. Son efprit etoit fujet 
 a quelques travers, dont il eut ete bien fache de fe corriger. II avoit 
 le genie fecond en experiences de mathematiques, & quelques talens 
 pour la chimie. Poli jufqu' a l'exces, quand 1'occafion ne le deman- 
 doit pas, fier, & meme brutal, quand il etoit queftion de f'humanifer. 
 II etoit grand, & n'avoit que trop mauvais air. Son vifage etoit fee 
 & dur, lors meme qu'il vouloit le radoucir; mais dans fes mauvaifes 
 humeurs, e'etoit une vraie phifionomie de reprouve." 
 
 What pity that we who wifh to tranfmit this prince's refemblance 
 to pofterity on a fairer canvas, have none of thefe inimitable colours 
 to efface the harlher likenefs! We can but oppofe facts to wit, truth 
 to fatire : how unequal the pencil ! Yet what thefe lines cannot do, 
 they may fuggeft : they may induce the reader to reflect, that if the 
 prince was defective in the tranfient varnifh of a court, he at leaft was 
 adorned by the arts with that polifh, which alone can make a court 
 attract the attention of fubfequent ages, 
 
 We 
 
 * Count Hamilton. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 8i 
 
 We muft take up the prince in his laboratory, begrimed, uncombed, 
 perhaps in a dirty fhirt ; on the day I am going to mention he cer- 
 tainly had not ihaved and powdered to charm mifs Hughes, for it 
 happened in his retirement at BrufTels, after the cataftrophe of his 
 uncle. * Going out early one morning, he obferved the centinel at 
 fome diftance from his poft, very bufy doing fomething to his piece. 
 The prince afked what he was about ! He replied, the dew had fallen 
 in the night, had made his fufil rufty, and that lie was fcraping and 
 cleaning it. The prince looking at it, was ftruck with fomething like 
 a figure eaten into the barril, with innumerable little holes clofed to- 
 gether, like friezed work on gold or filver, part of which the fellow 
 had fcraped away. 
 
 One knows what a meer good officer would have faid on fuch an 
 accident; if a fafhionable officer, he might have damned the poor fel- 
 low and given him a milling; but the Genie fecond en experiences from 
 fo trifling an accident conceived mezzotinto. The prince concluded 
 that fome contrivance might be found to cover a brafs plate with fuch 
 a grained ground of fine preffed holes, which would undoubtedly give 
 an impreffion all black, and that by fcraping away proper parts, the 
 iinooth fuperfices would leave the reft of the paper white. Communi- 
 
 X eating 
 
 * This account Vertue received from Mr. Killigrew of Somerfet-houfe, 
 who had it from Mr. Evelyn. In the General Dictionary a MS. faid to be 
 drawn up by Mr. Evelyn himfelf, afcribes the invention to the foldier. Yet 
 in Mr. Evelyn's printed account of the difcovery he exprefsly calls it invented 
 hy the prince. It is poflible that the foldier might have obferved the effect of 
 fcraping the rufc from his piece, and yet have little thought of applying it, 
 which probably was his highnefs's idea. In the Parentalia the invention is 
 afcribed to fir Chriftopher Wren, who is there faid to have communicated the 
 difcovery to the prince. P. 214. 
 
82 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 eating his idea to Wallerant Vaillant, a painter whom he maintained, 
 they made feveral experiments, and at lad invented a deel roller, cut 
 with tools to make teeth like a file or rafp, with projecting points, 
 which effectually produced the black grounds ; thofe being fcraped 
 away and diminifhed at pleafure, left the gradations of light. 
 
 The furprize occafioned by the novelty of the invention, by its foft- 
 nefs, and union of parts, cannot better be expreffed than in the words 
 of Mr. Evelyn, whofe abilities deferved the compliment paid him by 
 the prince of being one of the fird to whom this fecret or myllery as 
 they held it, was imparted, and who was fo dazzled with the honour 
 of the confidence, or with the curiofity of the new art, that after en- 
 couraging the world to expect the communication, he checked his 
 bounty, and determined not to proditute the arcanum, but to difclofe 
 it only to the elect.— -Here * is his oracular defcription ; 
 
 " It would appear a paradox to difcourfe to you of a graving with- 
 out a graver, burin, point or aqua-fortis ; and yet this is performed 
 without the afliftance of either : that what gives our mod perite and 
 dextrous artids the greated trouble, and is longed finifhing [for fuch. 
 are the hatches and deeped fhadows in plates] fhould be here the lead 
 confiderable, and the mod expeditious •, that, on the contrary, the 
 lights fhould in this be the mod laborious, and yet performed with 
 the greated facility : that what appears to be effected with fo little 
 curiofity, fhould yet fo accurately refemble what is generally edeemed 
 the very greated-, viz. that a print fhould emulate even the bed of 
 drawings, chiaro e fcuro, or [as the Italians term it] pieces of the 
 mezzotinto, fo as nothing either of Hugo da Carpi, or any of thofe 
 other maders who purfued his attempt, and whofe works we have al- 
 ready 
 * Sculptura p. 146. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 83 
 
 ready celebrated, have exceeded, or indeed approached ; efpecially, 
 for that of portraits, figures, tender landfcapes, and hiftory, &c. ta 
 which it feems moft appropriate and applicable. " 
 
 Thus, as he owns, he leaves it enigmatical ; yet thinks he has faid 
 
 enough to give a hint to ingenious perfons how it is performed. 
 
 In truth, they muft have been more ingenious even than the inventor 
 himfelf to have difcovered any thing from fuch an indefinite riddle. 
 One knows that ancient fages ufed to wrap up their doctrines, difcove- 
 ries, or nonfenfe, in fuch unintelligible jargon •, and the baby world, 
 who preferred being tmpofed upon to being taught, thought themfelves 
 extremely obliged for being told any fecret which they could not 
 comprehend. They would be reckoned mountebanks in this age, 
 who fhould pretend to inftruct, without informing ; and one cannot 
 help wondering that fo beneficent a nature as Mr. Evelyn's fhould 
 juggle with mankind, when the inventor himfelf had confented that 
 the new art fhould be made public. 
 
 Indeed, curious as the difcovery was, it did not produce all it feem- 
 ed to promife ; it has diverfified prints, rather than improved them ; 
 and though Smith, who carried the art to its greateft height yet 
 known, had confiderable merit, mezzotintos ftill fall fhort of fine en- 
 gravings. But before the fecret paffed into his hands, it was improv- 
 ed by Blooteling, who found out the application of the chifel for lay- 
 ing grounds, which much exceeded the roller. George White after- 
 wards made ufe of the graver for forming the black fpot in eyes, and 
 fharpening the light, which in preceeding mezzotintos he obferved had 
 never been fufficiently diftinct. 
 
 Some have thought that the prince only improved on Rembrandt's 
 manner in his prints, but there is no account of the latter making ufe 
 
 of 
 
84 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 of a method at all like that practiced for mezzotintos. 
 
 Prefixed to Evelyn's account is a kind of Saracen's head performed 
 by that prince, with his highnefs's mark thus, (ffi)- There is another 
 of the fame in large-, a man with a fpear ; and ^-P f - a woman's head 
 looking down in an oval, no name to it. Thefe are all his works in 
 inezzotinto. Landfcapes I think I have feen fome etched by him ; 
 and in Jervafe's fale were fome fmall figures drawn loolely with the 
 pen on white paper ; under them was written, Defiinati per il principe 
 Roberto a Londra 23 Septembre. The earlieft date of a mezzotinto 
 that Vertue had feen was an oval head of Leopold William archduke 
 of Auftria, with this infcription, Theodorus Cafparus a Furftenburgh, 
 canonicus, ad vivum pinxit & fecit 1656. This perfon had undoubt- 
 edly received the fecret before his highnefs returned to England. 
 
 WALLERANT VAILLANT, 
 
 Though a painter of fome reputation, belongs to this work in the 
 light only of engraver. He was born at Lifle in 1623, but ftudied 
 under Erafmus Quellin at Antwerp, on leaving whofe fchool he ap- 
 plied himfelf to portrait-painting, and being advifed to go to Franck- 
 fort againft the coronation of the emperor Leopold, drew his p^ture 
 
 with fuch fuccefs, that Vaillantfoon found himfelf overwhelmed with 
 bufinefs, till the marechal de Grammont carried him to Paris, where 
 in four years he found bufinefs enough to enrich him. He returned 
 to Amfterdam and died there in 1677. At what period of his life he 
 came to England does not appear, yet here he certainly was, and 
 came with prince Rupert, who taught him the fecret of mezzotinto. 
 Defcamps fays that this myftery, as it was then held, was ftolen from 
 
 Vaillant 
 
i />/7>-ms**if. A. ft . 
 
 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 85 
 
 Vaillant by the fon of an old man who fcraped the grounds of his 
 plates for him. This might be one of the means of divulging the 
 new art, yet, as I mow in the life of Becket, he and Lutterel both 
 learned the fecret by other means. Vaillant alfo drew from the life 
 in black and white. There is a mezzotinto, as I am informed, by 
 him, of queen Henrietta Maria, fitting in a fringed chair, with a little 
 girl refting againft her knees, and a young man leaning on the 
 back of the chair ; he has a ribband crofs his moulder, the edges of 
 which are a little fringed. The lady is at work. I have never feen 
 this print, but it correfponds fo much with part of the picture of 
 fir Balthazar Gerbier's family by Vandyck, mentioned in the fecond 
 volume of thefe anecdotes, that I fufpect the lady is not the queen, 
 but Gerbier's wife. 
 
 Mr. JOHN EVELYN. 
 
 If Mr. Evelyn had not been an artift himfelf, as I think I can prove, 
 I fhould yet have found it difficult to deny myfelf thepleafure of allot- 
 ing him a place among the arts he loved, promoted, patronized ; and 
 it would be but juftice to inferibe his name with due panegyric in thefe 
 records, as I have once or twice taken the liberty to criticize him : but 
 they are trifling blemifh.es compared with his amiable virtues and be^ 
 neficence; and it may be remarked that the worft I have faid of him 
 is, that he knew more than he always communicated. It is no unwel- 
 come fatire to fay that a man's intelligence and philofophy is inex- 
 hauftible. I mean not to write his life, which may be found detailed 
 in the new edition of his Sculptura, in Collins's Baronetage, in the 
 General Dictionary, and in the New Biographical Dictionary ; but I 
 
 Y mull: 
 
86 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 mud obferve that his life which was extended to 86 years was a court 
 of enquiry, ftudy, curiofity, inftruction, and benevolence. The works 
 of the Creator, and the mimic labours of the creature, were all objects 
 of his purfuir. He unfolded the perfection of the one, and affifted the 
 imperfections of the other. He adorsd from examination ; was a- 
 courtier that flattered only by informing his prince, and by pointing 
 out what was worthy for him to countenance, and was really the 
 neighbour of the gofpe!, for there was no man that might not have- 
 been the better for him. Whoever perufes a lift of his works, will 
 fubfcribe to my aflertion. He was one of the firft promoters of the- 
 Royal Society, a patron of the ingenious and indigent, and peculiarly 
 ferviceable to the lettered world, for befides his writings and difcove- 
 ries, he obtained the Arundelian marbles for the Univerfity of Oxford, 
 and the Arundelian Library for the Royal Society: nor is it the leaft 
 part of his praife, that he who propofed to Mr. Boyle the erection of 
 a philofophic college for retired and fpeculative perfons, had the ho- 
 nefty to write in defence of active life againft fir George Mackenfie's 
 EfTay on Solitude*. He knew that retirement in his own hands was 
 induftry and benefit to mankind; but in thofe of others lazinefs and 
 inutility. 
 
 Vertue difcovered that long before the appearance of Mr. Evelyn, 
 his family had been engaged in what then were curious arts. In an 
 ancient MS. in the office of Ordnance he found thefe entries, 
 
 A patent for making falt-petre granted to George Evelyn and 
 others 1587. 
 
 Powder- 
 
 * This was the more remarkable, as Evelyn lived in the fhade of philofo- 
 phy ; Mackenzie was continually engaged in the buftle cf-bufinefs and fiercef? 
 violence of part)'. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers: By 
 
 Powder-makers-, George Evelyn, efq; of Wootton in Surrey 1587. 
 Mr. John Evelyn; Mr. Robert Evelyn; Mr. George Evelyn, till 
 the beginning of 1637. 
 
 The lady of our Mr. Evelyn had correfpondent talents ; fhe defign- 
 ed the frontifpiece to his Eflay on the firft book of Lucretius *. 
 
 But to come to the point which peculiarly intitles Mr. Evelyn to a 
 place in thefe fheets. 
 
 There are five fmall prints' of his journey from Rome to Naples, - 
 which are generally f fuppofed to be etched by one Hoare from Mr. 
 Evelyn's drawings ; but a very ingenious and inquifitive J gentle- 
 man has convinced me that they are performed by his own hand. I 
 cannot give the reader better iatisfaction than by tranfcribing part of 
 a letter which that gentleman was fo obliging as to fend me, and his 
 modefty I hope will forgive the liberty I take with him. 
 
 " Copy of the title to Mr. John Evelyn's five prints for his jour-- 
 ney from Rome to Naples ; 
 
 The infcription is engraved on the fuperficies of a large broken ftone 
 table, fuftained by a little genius with wings ftanding about the mid- 
 dle of the plate : on each fide are views of the Roman antiquities, 
 particularly on the left is feen the arch of Septimius Severus : 
 
 Locorum aliquot infignium & celeberrimorum inter Romam et 
 Neapolin jacentium »*r»M«s et exemplaria Domino Dom°. Thoma? 
 
 Henfheaw 
 
 • Hollar infcribed a head of Vandyck to Mr. Evelyn. 
 
 f So the author of his life fays, tranfcribed in the Biogr. DicT:. The 
 General Dictionary indeed calls them Mr. Evelyn's own engravings^ which- 
 the following account will make clear. 
 
 %. Mr. Nathaniel Hillier. 
 
88 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 Henfheaw Anglo omnium eximiarum & pneclariffimarum artium 
 ciiltori & propugnatori maximo et <t>»o7n//a/«»a avra (non propter operis 
 pretium, Ted ut fingulare amoris fui teftimonium exhibeat) primas 
 has aSbKifc«{i«« aqua forti excufas & infculptas 
 
 ^ Jo. Evelynus delineator 
 
 %, D. D. C. Q. 
 
 The above is an exact copy of the titular Dedication to Mr. Eve- 
 lyn's rive prints oi* his journey from Rome to Naples •, and it is ima- 
 gined that upon the face ot the infcription there is a manifeft appear- 
 ance of Mr. Evelyn's being not only the defigner, butalfo the engra- 
 ver, as well as the dedicator of the prints -, notwithftandine; the author 
 of his life, prefixed to the new edition of his Sculptura, fays that they 
 were engraved from his fketches by Hoare an artift of character at 
 that time ; for when we come to examine the prints, and find the title 
 exactly conformable to the above copy, and that the five views them- 
 felves are all of them fubfcribed JE f. at the right hand corner, and no 
 other notation at all concerning ,my defigner, engraver, or publifher 
 whatever (except the little R. Hoare excu. at the bottom of the title 
 juft as above defcribed) one can hardly think otherwife than me au- 
 thor of Mr. Evelyn's life mult have been mifinformed, and never have 
 feen or carefully confulercd the infcription on the title dedicatory, and 
 the prints themfelves. Befides 1 fhould be glad to be informed how 
 the author of Mr. Evelyn's life came to know that Hoare was an 
 artift, or engraver at all, and more efpecially one of character at that 
 time, fince Mr. Evelyn himfelf has not inferted him among the 
 
 eighteen 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 89 
 
 eighteen Englifh engravers whofe praife he has celebrated, and whofe 
 names he has given us, p. 91, of his Sculptura; and though he tells us 
 in p. 92, that there were fome other Englifh artifls, who had merited 
 with their graver, but were unknown to him by name, yet furely of all 
 others the artift who had engraved his own defigns, could not have 
 -been among that number, more efpecially if he had been an artift of 
 -character. Not to mention a particular circumftance attending my 
 fet of the prints in queftion, (which I have great reafon to believe 
 were one of the fets which Mr. Evelyn kept for himfelf ) being fuper- 
 fcribed with a pen and ink, my journey from .Rome to Naples^ and with 
 a black lead pencil, fculpjit Johannes Evelynus Pari/iis 164.9. How- 
 ever it ought to be mentioned that the pen and ink, and the black 
 lead do not appear to be of the fame hand writing." 
 
 The General Dictionary corroborates the great probability of Mr. 
 Evelyn engraving thefe views, by quoting more etchings by him, a 
 view of his own feat at Wooton, and another of Putney ; and 
 Thorefby in his Mufeum fays exprefsly p. 496, that the prints of the 
 journey from Rome to Naples were done by Mr. Evelyn, who pre- 
 sented them to him, with his own head by Nanteuil. 
 
 DAVID LOGGAN 
 
 Was born at Dantzick, and is faid to have received fome * inftructions 
 from Simon Pafs in Denmark. Paffing through Holland he ftudied 
 under Hondius, and came to England before the Reftoration. Being 
 at Oxford, and making a drawing for himfelf of All-fouls-college, he 
 
 Z was 
 
 * Mich. Burghers told Vertue that he had Loggan's own head done by him- 
 felf in black lead aet. 20, 1655; [iffo, he was born in 1635] and knew of no 
 other portrait of him ; but he certainly fat to.Soeft. 
 
90 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 was taken notice of and defired to undertake plates of the public 
 buildings in that Univerfity, which he executed, and by which he firft 
 diftinguifhed himfelf. He afterwards performed the'fame for Cam- 
 bridge, but is faid to have hurt his eyefight in delineating the chapel of 
 King's-college. He alfo engraved on eleven folio copper plates Ha- 
 bitus Academicorum Oxonirc a Doctore ad fervientem. In the Re- 
 giftry of Matriculation there is this entry, David Loggan Gedanenfis, 
 Univerfitatis Oxon. Chalcographus, July 9. 1672. He had a licence 
 for fifteen years for vending his Oxonia Illuftrata. He frequently 
 drew heads in black lead, as Mr. * Afhmole's in 1677, and the lord- 
 keeper North's at Wroxton ; and was one of the moft confiderable 
 engravers of heads at that time. Dryden, fatyrizing vain bards, fays, 
 And in the front of all his fenfelefs plays 
 Makes David Loggan crown his head with bays -f-. 
 He married Mrs. Jordan, of a good family near Witney in Oxford- 
 fhire, and left at lead one fon, who was fellow of Magdalen-college 
 Oxford. David lived latterly in Leicefter-fields, where he died 1693 J. 
 His portraits, as enumerated by Vertue, are ; 
 
 John Sparrow, 1653. Another §, leaning his hand on 
 
 William Hickes, 1658. archbifhop Sheldon-, at bottom 
 
 Charles II. without his name, and a fmall head of Moncke. 
 only with Fidei Defenfor ; Another of the king, 
 therefore probably done before Queen Catherine, 
 the Reftoration. James duke of York, at length,. 
 
 Another in armour. garter robes, 
 
 * V. Afhmole's Diary, p. 58. 
 
 f Art of Poetry, canto 2d. 
 
 X In another place Vertue fays in 1700. 
 
 § This is the frontifpiece to Richard Atkins's Growth of Printing. 
 
 George 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 9* 
 
 George duke of Albemarle, half 
 length in armour, done from 
 the life by Loggan, and is one 
 of his beft works. 
 Sir Edward Coke, in Dugdale's 
 
 Origines Judiciales. 
 Edward earl of Clarendon, from 
 
 the life ; a fine head in the 
 
 fame book. 
 Head of a divine-, no name. 
 
 Englifh verfes. 
 Bifhop Mew, from the life. 
 Thomas Ifham, from the life, but 
 
 as Vertue thought, engraved 
 
 by Valck *. 
 Robert Stafford, with the fame 
 
 circumftances. 
 .Archibald earl of Argyle, ditto. 
 Ifaac Barrow, ditto. 
 Mother Loufe of Loufe-hall. 
 
 This partly gained him his re- 
 putation at Oxford. 
 Sprat bifhop of Roehefter. 
 Reynolds bifhop of Norwich. 
 
 Qu. if not by T. Cecil. 
 Archbifhop Ufher. 
 
 Edward Reynolds. 
 
 A man's head, no name, 1660. 
 
 A phyfician, do. setat. 45. Sup- 
 
 pofed to be Dr, Willis. 
 Sir Henry Pope Blount, with on- 
 ly his initials and arms. 
 Dr. Charleton, from the life. 
 Ralph Bathurft, do. 
 William Holder, do. Vertue 
 
 thought the face by Vander- 
 
 bank. 
 Boyle archbifhop of Armagh. 
 Sir John Chardin from the life. 
 John Mayow. 
 A youth in an oval, no name, but 
 
 fuppofed an anceftor of judge 
 
 Holt. 
 Arthur Jackfon. 
 James duke of Ormond, from 
 
 the life. 
 Sir Grevil Verney. 
 Sir Edward Coke. 
 John Bulfinch, printfeller, from 
 
 the life. 
 
 Bifhop Seth Ward, do. 
 
 Lake bifhop of Chichefler. 
 
 Crew 
 
 * Vertue fays that Vandergutch, Loggan's difciple, told him that Loggan 
 ufed long ftrokes in expreffing flefh ; and that where faces appear dotted in his 
 prints, they were executed by the perfons he employed. 
 
9 2 Catalogue of 
 
 Crew bifhop of Durham. 
 Compton bifhop of London. 
 
 Meggot dean of Winchefter. 
 There is another of him by 
 White. 
 
 Lord-keeper Guilford, from the 
 life, one of his beft prints. 
 
 Thomas Barlow, from the life. 
 
 Thomas Fuller, 166-1. 
 
 A. Brome, 1664. 
 
 John Wallis. 
 
 Pearfon bifhop of Chefter, from 
 the life. 
 
 John Cockfhut. 
 
 The feven bifhops, copied from 
 White's plate for Loggan by 
 Vanderbank, who worked for 
 him towards the end of his life. 
 
 Duke of Ormond, in an oval. 
 
 James duke of Monmouth, young 
 in the robes of the garter. The 
 handfomeft print of him. 
 
 James earl of Derby. 
 
 Thomas Sanders. Flefhiere pinx. 
 
 Richard Alleftry, from the life. 
 
 Gunning bifhop of Ely. 
 
 Mr. Waterhoufe. 
 
 Mr. Jofhua Moone. 
 
 Engravers. 
 
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 Dr. Henry More. 
 
 George Walker of Londonderry. 
 
 Leonard Plukener, 1690. 
 
 Archbifliop Sancroft, from the 
 life. 
 
 Loyd bifhop of St. Afaph. 
 
 Queen Henrietta Maria. 
 
 Frontifpiece to a Common-prayer- 
 book in folio, 1687, defigned 
 by John Bapt. Gafpars. 
 
 Titus Oates. 
 
 Sir George Wharton, but no 
 name, set. 46. 
 
 Another, 1657. 
 
 George prince of Denmark, from 
 the life. 
 
 Pope Innocent XI. 
 
 An emblematic print of Crom- 
 well at length in armour. A. M. 
 efq; fe. 
 
 The Academy of Pleafure, 1665. 
 Head of a man with a high- 
 crowned hat. 
 
 Frontifpiece to Rea's Florift; 
 fomething in the manner of 
 Cornel. Galle. 
 
 Frontifpiece to Guidott's Thermae 
 Britannicae. 
 
 Loggan 
 
93 
 
 Catalogue of Engraven. 
 
 Loggan brought over with him Blooteling and Valck, whom I am 
 going to mention. Vanderbank worked for him, and one Peter 
 Williamfon, of whom I find no account, but that Vertue thought the 
 emblematic print of Cromwell in the above lift might be done by him. 
 
 ABRAHAM BLOOTELING 
 
 Came from Holland in 1672 or 73, when the French invaded it, but 
 ftaid not long, nor graved much here, but did fome plates and fome 
 mezzotintos that were admired. Vertue fays he received 30 guineas 
 for etching a portrait of the duke of Norfolk. At Amfterdam, after 
 he had left England, he publifhed Leonardo Auguftino's Gems in 
 1685, and etched all the plates. His portraits are, 
 Prince Rupert, after Lely, 1673. Henry duke of Norfolk, 1678, 
 
 Edward earl of Sandwich, ditto, 
 a head. 
 
 Another, half length. 
 
 Edward Stillingfleet, canon of St. 
 Paul's. 
 
 The fame with the infcription al- 
 tered after he was bifhop of 
 Worcefter. 
 
 Anthony earl of Shaftfbury, fitting ; 
 one of his moft fcarce works. 
 
 Thomas earl of Danby, after LeJy. 
 
 James duke of Monmouth. 
 
 Thomas Sydenham, after Mrs. 
 Beale, A a 
 
 large. 
 Jane duchefe of Norfolk, ditto, 
 
 Bruxelles, 1681. 
 J. Wilkins bifhop of Chefter, 
 
 after Mrs. Beale. 
 Henry marquis of Worcefter. 
 An old man's head, profile ; 
 
 etched. 
 A boy's head with feathers in his 
 
 cap, 
 
 do. 
 
 John Tillotfon dean of Canter- 
 bury, fine. 
 Cecil Calvert lord Baltimore. 
 
 Charles 
 
94 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 Charles Howard earl of Carlifle. Van Haren, done in Holland, 
 Admiral Tromp, 1676. 1680. 
 
 GERARD VALCK 
 
 Was Blooteling's fervant, and then married his lifter ; came with him 
 from Holland, and returned with him, though he fometimes worked 
 for Loggan. Valck engraved one of the fineft prints we have. It is 
 the famous duchefs of Mazarin, fitting, in very loofe attire, with 
 one hand on an urn. There is a beautifull portrait of the fame duchefs 
 in a turban, painted in Italy, at the duke of St. Albans's at Windfor. 
 Vertue knew but three more of Valck's entire works ; Robert lord 
 Brooke, done in 1678; John duke of Lauderdale in robes of the 
 garter, and an indifferent mezzotinto of Mrs. * Davis after Lely. 
 
 EDWARD LE DAVIS 
 
 Of Welfh extraction, was apprentice to Loggan, whofe wife obliging 
 him to follow her in livery, he ran away to France, and became a 
 dealer in pictures, by which on his return he made a good fortune. 
 He engraved, 
 
 James duke of York ; a large Duchefs of Portfmouth, fitting, 
 head, with flowers round the St. Cecilia playing on a bafe- 
 oval. viol, with boy-angels flying-, 
 
 Bertram de Afhburnham, for probably done at Paris, after 
 
 Guillim's Heraldry. Vandyck. 
 
 Mary 
 
 * There is another of her in fmall quarto after Cooper. Valck affifted 
 Schenk in publishing the large Dutch Atlas in 2 vols, folio, 1683. 
 
Catalogue of Enrr avers. 95 
 
 Mary princefs of Orange, 1678. A merry Andrew, after Francis 
 
 William prince of Orange ; both Halls, graved in an odd man- 
 after Lely. ner. 
 
 General Moncke. An Ecce Homo after Carracci, 
 
 Stephen Monteage, 1675. fcarce. 
 
 Charles II. fitting; the face ex- Charles duke of Richmond, a 
 
 punged afterwards, and re- boy, after Wiffing, 1672, 
 placed with king William's. 
 
 __ LIGHTFOOT, 
 
 Says Mr. Evelyn *, " hath a very curious graver, and fpecial talent 
 for the neatnefs of his ftroke, little inferior to Wierinx ; and has 
 puclifhed two or three Madonnas with much applaufe." I fuppofe 
 he is the fame perfon with William Lightfoot, a painter, mentioned 
 in the third volume of this work, p. 15. 
 
 MICHAEL BURGHERS 
 
 Came to England foon after Louis XIV. took Utrecht, and fettled at 
 Oxford, where befides feveral other things he engraved the almanacs; 
 his firft appeared in 1676 without his name. He made many fmall 
 views of the new buildings at Queen's-college, and drew an exact plan 
 of the old chapel before it was pulled down. His other works were, 
 Sir Thomas Bodley ; at the cor- Kenelm Digby, and John Sei- 
 ners, heads of W. earl of Pern- den. 
 broke, archbifhop Laud, fir William Somner, the antiquary. 
 
 Francifcus 
 * Sculptura p. 99. 
 
96 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 Francifcus Junius, from Vandyck. Timothy Halton, provofr. of 
 A medal and reverfe of William Queen's-college, from the life. 
 earl of Pembroke ( who lived) Dr. Wallis, 1699. 
 
 in 1572. 
 
 John Barefoot, letter-doctor to 
 
 the Univerfity, 1681. 
 Head of James II. in an almanac 
 
 16S6. 
 Small head of T. V. fir Thomas 
 
 Wyat 
 Antony Wood in a niche. 
 King Alfred, from a MS. in the 
 
 Bodleian-library. 
 Archbifliop Chichele. 
 John Baliol. 
 Devorguilla, his wife. 
 William earl of Pembroke. 
 
 Two of Dr. Ratcliffe. 
 
 Sir Kenelm Digby. 
 
 Archbifhop Laud. 
 
 John Selden *. 
 
 A large face of Chrift, done with 
 one ftroke, in the manner of 
 Mellan. 
 
 Many frontifpieces for the Claffics 
 publifhed at Oxford. 
 
 The plates in Plot's works. 
 
 Ditto for the Englifli tranflation 
 of Plutarch's Lives •, and pro- 
 bably the vignettes to the Ca- 
 talogue Libr. MSS. in Anglia. 
 
 PETER f VANDERBANK 
 
 r_ , 7 Was Born at Paris, and came to England with Gafcar, the 
 
 ' j painter, about the year 1674. He married the filler of Mr. 
 
 Forefter, a gentleman who had an eftate at Bradfield in Hertfordfhire. 
 
 Vanderbank was foon admired for the foftnefs of his prints, and fti'l 
 
 more for the fize of them, fome of his heads being the largeft that 
 
 had 
 * The heads of Di~bv, Pembroke, Laud and Selden are the fame I have 
 mentioned at the corners of fir T. Bodley's print, 
 f He fometimes wrote his name Vandrebanc. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 97 
 
 had then appeared in England. But this very merit undid him •, the 
 time employed on fuch confiderable works was by no means compen- 
 fated in the price. He was reduced to want, and retiring to his bro- 
 ther-in-law, died at Bradfield, and was buried in the church there in 
 1697. After his death, his widow difpofed of his plates to one Brown, 
 a printfeller, who made great advantage of them, and left an cafy for- 
 tune. Vanderbank had three fons ; the eldeft had fome fhare in the 
 Theatre at Dublin. The youngeft, William, a poor labourer, gave 
 this account to Vertue. In the family of Forefter was a portrait of 
 the father by Kneller, and of the eldeft fon. Vanderbank's prints, 
 
 Charles II. in garter-robes, Gaf- out and re-engraved by R. 
 
 carpinx. 1675. White. 
 
 Ditto, 1677, 2 feet 4 high, by Archbifhop Tenifon, after Mrs. 
 
 2 feet wide. 
 
 James II. large lheet, Kneller p. 
 
 Mary his queen, do. 
 
 Another, after Wiffing. 
 
 King William, after Kneller. 
 
 Another, after Wiffing. 
 
 Queen Mary, after the fame. 
 
 Prince George of Denmark. 
 
 Princefs Anne. 
 
 Louis Quatorze, large head. 
 
 Statue of Charles II. in the Roy- 
 al-exchange. 
 
 Archbifhop Tillotfon, after Mrs. 
 Bealej the face was rubbed 
 
 Beale, 1695. 
 
 Prince George of Denmark, folio 
 fheet. 
 
 Princefs Anne, at length. 
 
 Princefs Mary, ditto. 
 
 Thomas earl of OfTory, large head. 
 
 Alexander earl of Moray, 1686. 
 
 George Vifcount Tarbatt, 1692. 
 
 Sir William Temple, after Lely, 
 1679. 
 
 John Smith writing- mafter, Fai- 
 
 thorne delin. Vertue fays a 
 
 great conteft happened about 
 
 the payment for this fine head. 
 
 B b James 
 
98 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 James earl of Perth, 1683. Henry More, Loggan delin. It 
 
 Thomas Lamplugh archbifhop 
 of York ; one of the fineft of 
 his works. 
 
 George Walker, who defended 
 Londonderry. 
 
 Thomas Dalziel, a Scotch gene- 
 ral, fcarce. 
 
 John Locke, in a perriwig. 
 
 Sir Edmundbury Godfrey. 
 
 Another, fmaller. 
 
 Edmund Waller, ast. 23. 
 
 Another, aet. 76. 
 
 Sir Thomas Allen, very large. 
 
 James duke of Monmouth, do. 
 
 Richard lord Maitland, 1683. 
 
 William lord Ruffel, after Kneller. 
 
 Lady Litchfield, Verelft pinx. 
 
 Sir George Mackenfie. 
 
 has not Vanderbank's name. 
 
 Archibald earl of Argyle. 
 
 Frederick duke of Schomberg. 
 
 Young man's head, Fide & fidu- 
 cia, Riley pinx. 
 
 John Cotton Bruce, very large. 
 
 Robert earl of Yarmouth, ditto. 
 
 Sir Thomas Browne, M. D. 
 
 Head of a Scotch gentleman, al- 
 tered to the earl of Marr. Haf- 
 fel pinx. 
 
 John earl of Strathnaver; i. e. 
 J. earl of Sutherland who died 
 about 1734. 
 
 William duke of Queenfberry. 
 
 William duke of Hamilton. 
 
 George lord Dartmouth. 
 
 His own head. Samuel Wood *. 
 
 Vanderbank engraved a fet of heads for Rennet's Hiftory of 
 England, they were defigned by Lutterel. Vanderbank executed 
 from the.Conqueror to queen Elizabeth ; the reft were finiflied by M. 
 Vandergutch. 
 
 He alfo graved after Verrio's paintings at Windfor, and fome 
 other hiftories, and did fome plates which have his name in Tijon's 
 
 book 
 
 * I am informed that this head of Wood could not be done by P. Vander- 
 bank the elder, whofe arm was torn off in 1737 : fee Phil. Traiif. for 1738. 
 As I find no account of his fecond ion, his name was probably Peter, and he 
 might be an engraver. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers, 99 
 
 book of Iron-works. He appears too to have had fome concern 
 in a manufacture of tapeftry ; in the duke of Ancafter's fale was a 
 fuite of tapeftry with Vanderbank's name to it. 
 
 NICHOLAS YEATES and JOHN COLLINS, 
 
 re, 1 Two obfeure engravers, whom Vertue mentions together 
 
 5 for thefe plates, 
 Sir William Waller, ob. 1669. 
 
 Embaffadors from Bantam, H. Peart, pictor. printed 1682, large 
 folio. 
 
 Leonard Plukenet, M. D- Collin fculp. 1681. 
 Oliver Plukenet, archbifhop, ob. 168 1. Collins Bruxell. fculp. 
 I find the name of R. Collins jun. to a print, done by him from the 
 life, of Francis Peck, the antiquary, born 1692. V. Ames, p. 135. 
 
 WILLIAM CLARKE 
 
 Did a head of George duke of Albemarle, from a painting of Barlow, 
 and another of John Shower, from a picture of his own ; the latter 
 a fmall mezzotinto. 
 
 JOHN CLARKE 
 
 r i Was an engraver at Edinburgh, where he did two profile 
 
 3 heads in medal of William and Mary, prince' and princefs of 
 
 Orange, yet dated 1 690 ; and prints of fir Matthew Hale, of George 
 
 Baron de Goertz (this was in concert with Pine) of Dr. Humphrey 
 
 Prideaux 
 
too Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 Prideaux, and a plate with feven little heads of Charles II. and his 
 queen, prince Rupert, prince of Orange, duke of York, duke of 
 Monmouth and general Moncke. There was another John Clarke, 
 who lived in Gray's-inn ; he engraved a quarto print of Rubens, 
 and, probably, the plates for Bundy's tranflation of Catrou and 
 Rouille's Roman Hiitory, and the vignettes for lord Lanfdown's 
 works. Gerard and Robert Vandergutch were alfo employed for the 
 latter book. 
 
 R. T O M P S O N, 
 
 A name to a print of Nel Gwynn and her two fons, and to a few 
 others. Though he only puts excudit on his plates, and on thofe fold 
 by Alexander Brown, he probably fcraped them. Brown, befides 
 his mczzotintos, engraved the plates to his Art of Painting, 1669. 
 See Payne Fifher's verfes prefixed to that work. Brown's plates in 
 that piece are chiefly copied from Bloemart's drawing-book. Treve- 
 than is mentioned by Sanderfon, but I know none of his works. 
 To a print of biihop RuiTel is faid, Thomas Dudley Anglus fecit, 
 1679. 
 
 PAUL VANSOMER 
 
 go? Another artift of no great fame, whom I give to compleat 
 
 J the lift, and as I find them, not confining myfelf ftrictly to 
 
 dates, which would be difficult to adjuft, when there were fo many 
 
 of the profefiion about the fame period. Vanfomer at firft executed 
 
 many plates both graved and in mezzotinto after the works of Lely; 
 
 his 
 
c /lyrtiv^rcf. ft. o^L. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 101 
 
 his drawings were commonly made in two * colours by Gafpar Baptiit, 
 and fometimes by Lemens, and he was fo expeditious as to finifli a 
 half length plate in a fummer's day— fufHcient reaibn for me not to 
 fpecify all his works. Before he arrived here, he had performed a 
 print of Charles duke of Bavaria and his fecretary in 1670. His 
 Mark was thus 7 g\Hjf|- Another print was of a countefs of Mcath 
 after Mignard ; and a third of the duke of Florence 'and his 
 fecretary. Towards the end of his time the art was funk very 
 low : Vertue fays that about the year 1690 Verrio, Cooke and 
 Laguerre, could find no better perfons to engrave their defigns 
 than S. Gribelin and Paul Vanfomer -— he might in juftice have 
 added that the engravers were good enough for the painters ; 
 and in 1702 that J. Smith was forced to execute in mezzotinto 
 the frontifpiece to fignor Nicolo Cofimo's book of mufic. But 
 before we come to that period we have one or two more to mention, 
 and one a good artift : 
 
 ROBERT WHITE 
 
 Was born in London 1645, and had a natural inclination to drawing 
 and etching, which he attempted before he had any iniT.ruct.ions from 
 Loggan of whom he learned, and for whom he drew and engraved 
 many buildings. What diftinguifhed him was his admirable fuccefs 
 
 C c in 
 
 * Mr. Scott in Crown-court Weftminfter has a copy in two colours in oil 
 by Vanfomer himfelf, the laft fupper after Pouffin, very freely done. 
 
 f As Vertue fometimes calls him Paul, and fometimes John Vanfomer, 
 I conclude they were different perfons, and that this mark belonged to 
 the latter. 
 
102 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 in likeneffes, a merit that would give value to his prints, though they 
 were not fo well performed. Many of his heads were taken by him- 
 felf with a black lead pencil on velom: Mr. Weft has feveral, particu- 
 larly his own head at the age of fixteen : Vertue thought them fupe- 
 rior to his prints. The heads of Sir Godfrey Kneller and his brother 
 in Sandrart were engraved from drawings by White, whofe portrait 
 Sir Godfrey drew in return. Many of the portraits in Sandford's 
 curious coronation of James II. were done from the life, as Vertue 
 thought, by White. In 1674, he graved the firft Oxford Almanac, 
 as he did the title-plate defigned by Adr. Hennin to the Hiftory and 
 Antiquities of that Univerfity. He alfo engraved Moncke's funeral. 
 For a plate of the king of Sweden he received 30/. from one Mr. 
 Sowters of Exeter. Of his own works he made no regular collection, 
 but when he had done a plate, he rolled up two or three proofs and 
 flung them into a clofet, where they laid in heaps. Thus employed 
 for 40 years together he had faved about four or five thoufand pounds, 
 and yet by fome misfortunes or wafte at laft, he died * in indigent cir- 
 cumftances, and his plates being fold to a printfeller in the Poultry -f, 
 enriched the purchafer in a few years. As no man perhaps has ex- 
 ceeded Robert White in the multiplicity of Englifh heads, it may be 
 difficult to give a compleat catalogue of them, yet as my author had 
 formed a long lift, it would be defrauding curious collectors if I re- 
 futed to tranferibe it ; one would not grudge a few hours more, after 
 the many that have been thrown away on thefe idle volumes. I leem 
 
 to 
 
 * He died fuddenly at his houfe in Bloomfbury in 1 704. 
 
 + Vertue fays the fame fuccefs attenda 1 Cooper and Bowles, printfelters : 
 a profeifion which Vertue thought very juitly did not deferve to thrive be- 
 yond the laborious aniits whom they employed. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 103 
 
 to myfelf a door-keeper at the Temple of Fame taking a catalogue of 
 thofe who have only attempted to enter. 
 
 Edward the Black Prince in an 
 oval. 
 
 Ditto in armour, at length. 
 
 Edward IV. without a name, 
 arms, or infcription. It was 
 done for the Fsdera and placed 
 at the reign of Henry V. but 
 Ryrner doubting if it was that 
 king, the name was omitted. 
 Rapin finding it there, had it 
 copied for his firft French edi- 
 tion. It is a profile from the 
 whole length at St. James's* 
 which has fince appeared by 
 Vanderdort's catalogue to be 
 Edward IV. by Belcamp. There 
 is alfo a wooden cut done temp. 
 Eliz. which agrees with Van- 
 derdort's account. 
 
 Charles I. after Van Vorft. 
 
 Charles II. large head, 1679. 
 
 Ditto, whole length, in robes of 
 the garter. 
 
 Queen Anne 1703, poorly done. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth fitting under a 
 
 canopy. 
 The three firft Edwards, and 
 
 Richard II. for Brady's Hiftory 
 
 of Eno-land. 
 James II. under a canopy, with 
 
 Sancroft and Jefferies. 
 Another when duke of York, 
 
 garter-robes. 
 Another, large head, 1682. 
 The fame, altered when king. 
 Mary of Efte, duchefs of York. 
 Another, whole length. 
 Henry duke of Gloucefter, whole 
 
 length. 
 King William and queen Mary, 
 
 prefixed to Cox's Hiftory of 
 
 Ireland. 
 Two dukes of Hamilton, in Bur- 
 net's Memoirs of that Family. 
 George earl of Cumberland, dreff- 
 
 ed as for a tournament,, beau- 
 
 tifull print. 
 Lady Mary Jolliffe. 
 
 Nine 
 
104 Catalogue of 
 
 Nine i'mall heads of the family 
 of Rawdon. Thorefby fays 
 they were done for a MS. ac- 
 count of that family. I have 
 eight of thefe cuts. 
 
 Robert Morifon, M. D. 
 
 Richard Meggor, dean of Win- 
 chefter. 
 
 Thomas duke of Leeds, ad vivum. 
 
 Heneage earl of Nottingham. 
 
 Seven lords juftices in 1695. One 
 plate. 
 
 Sir Edward Ward, chief baron 
 1702. 
 
 Sir George Treby, ad vivum, 
 1694. 
 
 Patrick earl of Strathmore, 1 6S6. 
 
 Sir John Somers lord-keeper, 
 1693. 
 
 William Salmon, M. D. 1700. 
 
 Five bifhops martyrs. One plate. 
 
 Nathaniel Vincent, 1694. 
 
 Everard Maynwaringe, M. D. 
 
 Ezekiah Burton, after Mrs. Beale, 
 
 Two of John Partridge. 
 
 Sir George Ent, M. D. 
 
 Two of Samuel Pepys, of his 
 beft graving. 
 
 Engravers. 
 
 Two of Sir William Temple. 
 
 Joleph Perkins, A. B. 
 
 Cole, a phyfician. His name is 
 only mentioned in two Latin 
 verfes under the head. 
 
 Robert South, S. T. P. 
 
 Dr. Stilhngfleet, bifhop of Wor- 
 cester. 
 
 John Bunyan. 
 
 Two of Sir Roger Leftrange. 
 
 Henry Purcel, after Clolerman. 
 
 Count Konifmark. 
 
 Simon Patrick bifhop of Ely. 
 
 Two of Antony earl of Shaftf- 
 bury. 
 
 George earl of Mclvil. Sir John 
 Medina p. 
 
 James earl of Perth, after Kneller. 
 
 Another after Riiey, titles in 
 French. This is reckoned one 
 of White's bed. Of this lord 
 there are prints by Faithorne, 
 Vanderbank and White. 
 
 The feven bifhops in one plate. 
 
 A gentleman, full-bottomed wig, 
 arms, no name. 
 
 Arch bifhop Tenifon, from the 
 life. 
 
 * William 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 105 
 
 * William Camden, setae 58. Benjamin Whitchor, S. T. P. 
 
 ; 1 In habits o 
 > the time o 
 ' J James I. 
 
 • John Owen, D. D. 
 
 Mary countefs dowager of War 
 wick. 
 
 Sir Alexander Temple 
 
 Sufanna lady Temple 
 
 Lord chancellor Clarendon, after 
 Lely. 
 
 John earl of Rochester. 
 
 John duke of Newcaftle. 
 
 Robert Leighton, S. T. P. 
 46. 
 
 James Cooke, M. D. 
 
 George Hickes, S. T. P 
 
 the life, 1703, one of his lad 
 works. There is another ear- 
 lier. 
 
 Biihop Burnet, after Mrs. Beale. 
 
 Another from the life- 
 Queen Mary of Efte. 
 
 Thomas Street, judge, from the 
 life. 
 
 John Afhton, gent, after Riley. 
 
 Mr. Fleetwood, from the life. 
 
 setat. 
 
 from 
 
 A clergyman, in his own dark 
 hair. 
 
 A young gentleman, in full-bot- 
 tomed wig; laced cravat, faid 
 to be Mr. Benj. Hewling. 
 
 Sir Edward Lutwyche, ferjeant 
 at law. 
 
 Sir Thomas Pilkington, lord- 
 mayor. 
 
 Sir Peyton Ventris, judge, 1691, 
 
 Sir Crefwell Levinz, judge. 
 
 John Overall, bifhop of Norwich. 
 
 Thomas Creech, M. Sunman 
 pinx. 
 
 Thomas Gouge, after Riley. 
 
 James Bonnel, efq; 
 
 Robert earl of Ailefbury. 
 
 John How, V. D. M. 
 
 Dr. Antony Horneck, after Mrs, 
 Beale. 
 
 Vera effigies Venturi Mandey, 
 Stat. 37, 1682. 
 
 Thomas Flatman, Hayls pinx. 
 
 Dd Sir 
 
 * For this plate he received four pounds, which Teems to have been his moft 
 common price, as appeared by the receipt-book of Chifwell, bookfeller in St. 
 Paul's church-yard : for the print of queen Mary, done in 1694, White had 
 four pounds ten ihillings. 
 
io6 Catalogue of 
 
 Sir John Cotton, 1699. 
 
 Mr. Parker of Lees, Hebrew 
 
 motto, and arms, but no name. 
 Mr. Jofeph Moone. 
 Four different plates of arch- 
 
 bifhop Tillotlon. 
 John Wilkins bifhop of Chefter. 
 Three of William Bates, S. T. P. 
 William Walwyn, Etat 80. 
 Archbifhop Sancroft. 
 Dr. Bufby, ob. 1695. 
 John Fryer, M. D. from the life. 
 Samuel Cradock, B. D. 
 William Eluck, efq ; 
 George Buchanan. 
 The lady Anne Clifford, countefs 
 
 dowager of Dorfet and Pern- 
 
 broke. 
 William Petyt, from the life. 
 Sir James Turner. 
 Sir Robert Howard. 
 Dr. John Blow, from the life. 
 Thomas Manton, D. D. 
 John Boccace, from Titian. 
 Thomas Thynne, efq •, 
 Henry Wharton, A. M. after 
 
 Tilfon. 
 
 Cardinal Pole. 
 
 Engravers. 
 
 Sir Thomas Wentworth earl of 
 Strafford. 
 
 Sir George Jefferies, lord chief 
 juftice. 
 
 The fame, altered all but the face. 
 
 Sir John Holt, lord chief juftice. 
 
 Thomas Tryon, gent. 1703. 
 
 Effigies Authoris [Burnet of the 
 Charter-houfe.] 
 
 Edmund King, M. D. There is 
 another print of him in mezzo- 
 tinto by R. Williams, both are 
 fine. 
 
 Sir Henry Spelman. 
 
 Sir George Mackenfie, well en-< 
 graved. 
 
 Denzil lord Holies of Ifield. 
 
 1'he honourable Robert Boyle. 
 
 Sir John Hofkins, a buft on a 
 pedeftal, no name of engraver. 
 
 Antony Tuckney, D. D, 
 
 John Scott, S. T. P. 
 
 John Aylmer bifhop of London. 
 
 Edmund Ludlow, lieutenant-ge- 
 neral. 
 
 John Flavel, 1 680. 
 
 Samuel Haworth, M. D. 
 
 Philo- 
 
Catalogue of 
 
 Philomufus. S. G. in cypher. It 
 is Samuel Gilbert, author of 
 the Florift's Vade Mecum. 
 
 William Sherlock, dean of St. 
 Paul's. 
 
 Catherine of Arragon, for Bur- 
 net's Hiftory of the Reforma- 
 tion. 
 
 Robert Johnfon, aetat. 44. 
 
 William Cockburn, M. D. 
 
 John Shower, 1700. 
 
 William Hunt, sstat. 28. 
 
 Mr. George Herbert, author of 
 poems. 
 
 A writing-matter looking over 
 his right moulder, in his hair, 
 laced cravat, no name. 
 
 Mary queen of Scots. 
 
 Prince Lewis of Baden. 
 
 Neophytus archbifhop of Philip- 
 popolis, 1702. 
 
 Baron de Ginckle, afterwards earl 
 of Athlone. 
 
 Sir John Marfham, set, 80. 
 
 Sir Richard Levett, lord-mayor. 
 
 Archbifhop Ufher, White's name 
 not to it, done by Tyrril, 1683. 
 
 Engravers. 107 
 
 Sir James Dalrymple of Stair, 
 prefident of the court of feffion, 
 poorly done from a good draw- 
 ing in Indian ink by David 
 Paton, in the poffeffion of fir 
 David Dalrymple. 
 
 Henry Coley, Philomath. 
 
 Jofeph Caryl. 
 
 Thomas Creech, Sunman p. 
 
 Sir Philip Warwick, after Lely. 
 
 John Edwards, S. T. B. from the 
 life. 
 
 Monfieur de St. Evremont. 
 
 Mordecai Abbot, efq; Richard- 
 fon p. 
 
 Dr. John Owen, fome impreffi- 
 ons have not his name. 
 
 Daniel Colwall, 1681. 
 
 Samuel Slater, 1692. 
 
 Sir Thomas Brown, M. D. 
 
 Five Kentifh. Gentlemen, petiti- 
 oners, one plate. 
 
 Dr. Jofeph Beaumont, mafter of 
 Peterhoufe. 
 
 Lord chief juftice Coke. 
 
 John Sharp archbifhop of York. 
 
 Timothy 
 
io8 
 
 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 Timothy Crufo, V. D. M. 
 
 John Sowter, merchant of Exe- 
 ter ; he had been in Sweden, 
 and befpoke the plate of the 
 king of Sweden mentioned 
 above. 
 
 Sir John Nifbet of Dirleton, one 
 of the fenators of the college 
 of juftice in Scotland. 
 
 Archibald, firft duke of Argyle, 
 titles in Latin. 
 
 Queen Mary II. done after her 
 death. 
 
 John Selden. 
 
 Countefs of Arundel, in mezzo- 
 tinto, the only print he did in 
 that way *. 
 
 Sir Thomas Nott, from the life. 
 
 Prince Rupert, after Kneller. 
 
 Walter Chetwynd, elq; from the 
 life. 
 
 Sir John Fenwick, after Willing. 
 
 Thomas Deane of Freefolk. 
 
 James II. ftar and garter crowned. 
 
 James Cooke, M. D. stat. 64. 
 
 Another, setat. 71. 
 
 William Leybourn, from the 
 
 life. Fol. Two. 
 
 Another, quarto. 
 
 Edward Hatton, M. D. 
 
 John Rawlet, B. D. 
 
 Sir Geoffry Palmer, attorney- 
 general. 
 
 Sir Herbert Perrot. 
 
 Jeremy Collier, 1701. 
 
 William Burkit, A. M. 1703. 
 
 Archbifhop Sharpe. 
 
 Charles III. king of Spain, begun 
 by R. White juft before his 
 death, finifhed by his fon G. 
 White, whofe name is to it. 
 
 Sir Edward Dering, 1687. 
 
 Patrick earl of Marchmont. 
 
 John Harris, D. D. begun by the 
 father and finifhed by the fon. 
 
 Thomas Wefton, writing- mafter. 
 
 A man's head 1677, with the figns 
 of the zodiac round him. 
 
 Frederick Auguftus king of Po» 
 land, 1696. 
 
 CharlesXI. king of Sweden, 1683. 
 
 Alexander Carencrofs bifhop of 
 Glafgow. 
 
 Reverend Matthew Pole. 
 
 Crefcentius 
 * So Vertue thought, but there is another of Dr. Briggs. 
 
Catalogue of 
 
 Crefcentius Mather, S. T. P. 
 
 A man's head, in a laced cap, 
 
 long beard; it is fir Alexander 
 
 Gibfon of Durie, one of the 
 
 fenators of the college of juf- 
 
 tice in Scotland. 
 Sir Patrick Lyon, from the life. 
 Bibye Lake and Mary Lake, 
 
 oval heads in one plate. 
 Robert Sparke, B. D. 
 John Vaughan, chief juftice of 
 
 the Common Pleas. 
 John Brown furgeon. 
 A bifhop's head [doctor Taylor.] 
 Jofhua Barnes, Greek infcription. 
 Captain William Bedloe. 
 Mrs. Aphra Behn. 
 Richard Baxter, jetat. 55. 
 Sir Robert Cotton. 
 David Clarkfon, minifter, after 
 
 Mrs. Beale. 
 Samuel Clarke, from the life. 
 John Cleveland, without White's 
 
 name. 
 Stephen Charnock, B. D. 
 William Cookfon. 
 John Collins, S. T. P. 
 
 Engravers. 109 
 
 Prance and Dugdale, two plates. 
 
 Elias Keach. 
 
 Captain Robert Knox. 
 
 Daniel Kendrick, phyfician. 
 
 George Moncke duke of Albe- 
 marle. 
 
 Richard Morton, M. D. 
 
 Milton, after Faithorne's print. 
 
 Sir John Pettus. 
 
 Sir Paul Rycaut. 
 
 John Rufhworth, efq; 
 
 George Stradling, S. T. P. 
 
 James II. with his dying expref- 
 fions. 
 
 John Lightfoot, S. T. P. 
 
 Thomas Willis, M. D. 
 
 Rev. Philip Henry. 
 
 Sir William Afhurft, lord-mayor. 
 
 Mr. Edmund Trench. 
 
 Sir Robert Wright, lord chief 
 juftice. 
 
 Sir Nathan Wright, lord-keeper. 
 
 Thomas Wadfworth, M. A. 
 
 Archbilhop Whitgift. 
 
 James Janeway, without Whitens 
 name. 
 
 Thomas Barlow bifhop of Lin- 
 coln. 
 
 Ee 
 
 The 
 
no Catalogue of 
 
 The feven cottnfellors for the fe- 
 
 ven bifhops. 
 Princefs Anne of Denmark. 
 Two of John Ayres. 
 A gentleman, half length, laced 
 
 ruff, black habit, white gloves 
 
 in his right-hand, in his left, 
 
 cloak and fword. 
 Another in a long wig, with a 
 
 Engravers. 
 
 death's head. 
 A man's head, the other part a 
 
 fkeletort. 
 Another in a long wig and laced 
 
 cravat, place left for arms, 
 
 without White's name. 
 Another, in his hair, broad band, 
 
 cloak, in his right hand .♦ cuok, 
 
 other books behind. 
 
 GEORGE WHITE 
 
 Son of Robert, fmifhed fome of his father's plates, and engraved others 
 himfelf, but chiefly practiced in mezzotinto, in which he fucceeded, 
 and had fometimes 20 guineas for a plate. His bed I think are of 
 Sir Richard Blackmore, and Silvefter Petyt, the latter remarkably fine. 
 He alfo painted in oil, and more frequently in miniature. Or.e of his 
 firft large heads, in his father's manner, was of James Gardiner bifhop 
 of Lincoln. He was alive fo late as the year 173 1 , when a print by 
 him of bifhop Wefton is dated. 
 
 ARTHUR SOLY 
 
 16S 2 1 ^ as mucn employed by Robert White, who drew his head 
 j in black lead, which was engraved in 1683. Himfelf did 
 prints of Richard Baxter, and Tobias Crifp. 
 
 HAMLET 
 
>lfttl4S&r& . ft. 20C. 
 
 Hamlet Wjnstawz,e.y.. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers, in 
 
 HAMLET WINSTANLEY 
 
 Learned to draw under the Knellers, being defigned for a painter, and 
 from thence went to Italy: but on his return feems to have addicted 
 himfelf to engraving. He etched and publifhed the earl of Derby's 
 collection of pictures, as his father Henry had done feveral views of 
 Audley-inn, which he dedicated to James II. that building being 
 then a * royal palace : he added too an infcription in honour of fir 
 Chriftopher Wren. This fet of prints is very fcarce ; the plates are 
 referved by the defcendents of the earls of Suffolk. Henry was clerk 
 of the works at Audley-inn in 1694, and in 1700 clerk of the works 
 at Newmarket. It was this artift, I believe, who had a houfe near 
 Audley-inn at Littlebury, where were feveral mechanic tricks to fur- 
 prize the populace, and known by the name of Winftanley's wonders. 
 Thefe childifh contrivances, I fuppofe, he learned in Italy, where they 
 do not let their religion monopolize all kind of legerdemain. In the 
 Villa Borghefe at Rome, amidft emperors, heroes and philofophers, I 
 have feen a puppet-fhew in a box that turned like a fquirrel's rolling 
 cage; in the fame palace was the noble ftatue of Seneca dying in the 
 bath, and a devil that ftarted out of a clock-cafe, as you entered the 
 chamber. There is a print of James earl of Derby from a painting 
 by Hamlet Winftanley, another of Peploe bifhop of Chefter ; and 
 his own head by himfelf. The two laft were executed by Faber. 
 
 Winftanley 
 * It had been purchafed by the Crown, but much of the money not being- 
 paid, king William returned it to the family ; but bought as much tapeftry there 
 as coft him 4500/. It is remarkable that in the church of Walden, which is 
 beautifully light and ftriking, is ftill preferved very frefh the achievement of the 
 memorable Frances countefs of EfTex and Somerfet. 
 
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 Winftanley the father was proje&or and builder of the Eddyftone 
 light-houfe, and was killed by the fall of it in a great ftorm. * Ham- 
 let Winftanley's collection of copper-plates and prints were fold by 
 auction at EfTex-houfe, March 18, 1762. Among them were his 
 etchings from lord Derby's pictures, and the cupola of Sc. Paul's 
 after Thornhill. 
 
 BURNFORD 
 
 rn I Is known only by a print of William Salmon, chymift, 
 3 1681. 
 
 ISAAC OLIVER, 
 
 A name that can never be omitted, when it occurs in any branch of 
 the arts, was, I fuppofe, the fame perfon with the glafs-painter whom 
 I have mentioned in my iecond volume, p. 15, and is found to two 
 prints-, the firft, of James II. the other of lord chancellor Jefferies, 
 who is there ftyled earl of Flint ; a title which none of our hiftorians 
 mention to have been given to or defigned for him. 
 
 JOHN DRAPENTIERE 
 
 [691 J 
 
 Etched prints of Benjamin Keach, Daniel Burgefs, 1691,. 
 fir James Dyer, and J. Todd. 
 
 WILLIAM 
 
 * This article is not in its proper perioJ of time, as relating to the fon, but 
 rightly placed with regard to the father. In the former edition I had confound- 
 ed uiem together. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 113 
 
 WILLIAM ELDER 
 
 Was cotemporary with Robert White ; and a Scotchman. Vertue 
 had feen fome writing graved by him in a book in 1681. He made 
 a print of himfelf in a fur cap, and another in a wig. His beft 
 work was a plate of Ben John Ton. His other things are heads of 
 Pythagoras, Dr. Mayern, John Ray, Dr. Morton, archbifhop San- 
 croft, George Parker, Charles Snell writing-mafter, admiral Ruffe!, 
 and judge Pollexfen. 
 
 JOHN STURT 
 
 Was born April 6, 1658, and at the age of 17 was put apprentice to 
 Robert White, and did feveral prints, but of no great merit. How- 
 ever he was exceedingly admired by Mr. Thorefby*, who in his mu- 
 feum had the Lord's Prayer engraved by Sturt, in the compafs of a 
 filver penny, the ten commandments, &c. in the fize of a medal; and 
 the gofpel of St. Matthew engraved in octavo. Sturt's capital work 
 was his Common-prayer-book, publifhed by fubfcription in 1 717 : 
 it is all engraven, very neatly, on filver plates, in two columns, with 
 borders round each plate, fmall hiftories at top, and initial letters. 
 It is a large octavo, and contains 166 plates, befides 22 in the be- 
 ginning, which confift of the dedication, table, preface, calendar, 
 names of fubfcribers, &c. Prefixed is a buft of George I. in a round, 
 and facing it, thofe of the prince and princefs of Wales. On the king's 
 bull are engraven the Lord's prayer, creed, commandments, prayers 
 
 F f for 
 
 * Ducat. Leod. 498, 513. Mr. Thorefby mentions two other engravers, - 
 Mr. Robert Jackfon, and Mr. Francis Bragge. 
 
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 for the Royal Family, and the 21ft pfalm, but fo fmall as not to be 
 legible without a magnifying-glafs. He alfo engraved a Companion 
 to the Altar, on plates of the fame fize, and a fet of 55 hiftoric cuts 
 for the Common-prayer-book in fmall oclavo. He copied faithfully, 
 as may be feen by the Englifh tranflation of Pozzo's Perfpeftive, 
 publifhed by James in folio. Sturt, grown old and poor, had a place 
 offered him in the Charter-houfe, which he refufed, and died about 
 the age of 72. He had received near 500/. of Mr. James Anderfon 
 of Edinburgh to grave plates for his fine book of Scottifh Records, 
 &c. but did not live to compleat them. 
 
 Mr. LUTTEREL 
 
 Was bred at New-inn, but having a difpofition to drawing, took to 
 crayons and abandoned the law. Having a mechanic head, and obferv- 
 ing the applaufe given to the new art of mezzotinto, he kt himfelfto 
 difcover the fecret, for fo it was ftill kept. His firft invention for lay- 
 ing the grounds was by a roller, which fucceeded pretty well, but not 
 to his content, that method being neither fo fharp nor cafting as the 
 true way. Upon this he perfuaded his friend Loyd, who kept a print- 
 fhop in Salifbury-ftreet in the Strand, to bribe one Blois, who ufed to 
 lay grounds for Blooteling and was then going to Holland, to difcover 
 the myftery. The profits were to be divided, Lutterel fcraping and 
 Loyd felling the prints. Forty millings purchafed the fecret; but 
 when purchafed, Loyd would not communicate it to Lutterel, on 
 which they quarrelled. In the interim 
 
 ISAAC 
 
Catalogue of Engravers, 1 1 5 
 
 ISAAC BECKET*, 
 
 Then apprentice to a callico-printer, vifiting Lutterel, caught the 
 paffion of learning mezzotinto ; and hearing that Loyd was poflclTed 
 ofthefecret, and being forced to abfent himfelf from his bufinefs 
 upon an intrigue, had recourfe to Loyd, who, though mailer of the 
 arcanum, was not capable of putting it in execution. Becket offered 
 his fervice, was inftructed in the ufe of the chifel, and entered into 
 articles of working for Loyd. Lutterel in the mean time purfued his 
 old method, and publifhed a print of a woman blowing out a candle 
 backwards, which fold mightily. Soon after he got acquainted with 
 Vanfomer, and from him learned the whole procefs. Becket fell 
 again into the fame trouble, and Lutterel afiifting him, they became 
 intimate j but Becket marrying a woman of fortune, fet up for him- 
 felf, and Lutterel did many heads for him, being more expeditious 
 and drawing better than Becket; but they were often finifhed by the 
 latter. Lutterel's beft print was a portrait of Le Piper, the painter ; 
 few of his works have his name to them. He was the firft that laid 
 grounds on copper -J- for crayons, a method afterwards practiced by 
 Faithorne. One of Becket's beft is- a print of a lady Williams, whole 
 length. I have run thefe lives into one another, finding them blended 
 by Vertue, and naturally connected. 
 
 I have now carried this work down to the year 1700. If the art did 
 not make great improvements after that period, at leaft- it was en- 
 larged, and not fo reftri&ed to portraits. Hiftoric fubjects came into 
 
 vogue 
 * Born in Kent, 1653. 
 
 t Some of Lutterel's works in this manner are in queen Caroline's clofet at 
 Kenfjnffton. 
 
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 rogue too. If no great matter was performed, that age did not de- 
 ferve fo much reproach as we do. Few good pictures were then im- 
 ported. How many noble collections have been formed fince, and 
 yet how few prints appear of intrinfic merit ! I have mentioned thofe 
 of Mr. Strange, which are worthy of any country,, and of the mafters 
 he has imitated. Mac Ardell has done a few in mezzotinto, that 
 ihow what that branch is capable of; but our collections are ftill far 
 from being exhaufted ; and yet I do not forget how many beautiful 
 landfcapes of Claud Lorrain and Gafpar Pouflln we owe to the late 
 Mr. Pond. Nor is this wholly the fault of artifls ; if the public 
 would neglect whatever is not worthy of their country and of its riches, 
 nor pay great prices for hafty performances, it is not credible that 
 we can want either the genius or induftry of the French, though 
 hitherto their prints in general are at leaft as much better than ours,-. 
 as their prices are more reafonable. 
 
 The end of king William's reign was illuftrated by a genius of finr 
 gular merit in his way, 
 
 Mr. JOHN SMITH,. 
 
 i The bed mezzotinter that has appeared, who united foftnefs 
 5 with flrength, and finifhing with freedom. To pofterity per- 
 haps his prints will carry an idea of fomething burlefque ; perukes of 
 outrageous length flowing over fuits of armour compofe wonderfull 
 habits. It is equally ftrange that fafhion could introduce the one,. 
 and eftablifh the practice of reprefenting the other, when it was out 
 of fafhion. Smith excelled in exhibiting both as he found them in 
 
 the- 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 117 
 
 the portraits of Kneiler, who was lefs happy in what he fubftituted to 
 armour. In the kit-cat-club, he has poured full-bottoms chiefly over 
 night-gowns : If thofe ftreams of hair were incommode in a battle, 
 I know nothing they were adapted to, than can be done in a night- 
 
 gown. 
 
 I find little account of Smith's life, except that he ferved his time 
 with one Til.let, a painter in Moorfields, and that as foon as he be- 
 came his own mailer, he applied to Backet, and learned from him the 
 fecret of mezzotinto, and being farther inftrucled by * Vander Vaart, 
 was taken to work in Sir Godfrey's fioute, and as he was to be .the 
 publifher of that mailer's works, no doubt received conlielerable hints 
 from him, which he amply repaid. Vertue, who was lefs diligent in 
 his inquiries after the works of mezzotinters, has left no regular cata- 
 logue of Smith's works, nor, as they are fo common, fhall I attempt 
 one. This lift is already fwelled to too large a fize ; and I fhall for- 
 bear particularizing the prints of thofe that are to follow, which being 
 of fo frefh a date, cannot be fcarce. Smith had compofed two large 
 volumes with proofs of his own plates, which I have feen in his hands ; 
 he afked 50/. for them : what became of them I know not-f . His fineft 
 works are, duke Schomberg on horfeback ; that duke's fon and fuc- 
 ceffor, Maynhard ; the earls of Pembroke, Dorfet, and Albemarle ; 
 three plates, with two figures in each, of young perfons or children, in 
 which he fhone; William Anftruther; Thomas Gill -, William Cow- 
 per; Gibbons and his wife; queen Anne; duke of Gloucefter, whole 
 length with a flower-pot; duke of Ormond ; a very curious one of 
 
 Gg queen 
 
 * See an account of Vander Vaart in the third volume of this work, p. 157. 
 
 t I am told they were in the pofleflion of Mr. Spencer, miniature-painter,, 
 and arenow in his Widow's. 
 
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 queen Mary in a high head, fan and gloves; earl of Godolphin ; the 
 duchefs of Ormond, whole length with a black ; and fir George 
 Rooke. There is a print by him of James II. with an anchor, but 
 no infcription, which not being finifhed when the king went away, is 
 fo fcarce, that 1 have known it fold for above a guinea. Befides por- 
 traits, Smith performed many hiftoric pieces, as the loves of the gods 
 from Titian, at Blenheim, in ten plates •, Venus Handing in a fhell, 
 from a picture by Correggio, that was at Buckingham-houfe ; Venus 
 and Cupid on a couch •, a fatyr and woman after Luca Jordano, and 
 many more, of which perhaps the moft delicate is a holy family with 
 angels, after Carlo Maratti. There is a print of himfelf after fir 
 Godfrey Kneller. 
 
 SIMON GRIBELIN 
 
 -) Was born at Blois in i66r, and came to England about 
 i 1680; but it was above twenty years before he was noticed. 
 The firft work that raifed his reputation was the tent of Darius, pub- 
 lifhed in 1707. This was followed by a fet of the Cartoons; their 
 iuccefs was very great, having never been compleatly engraved before; 
 but they were in too fmall a volume, nor had Gribelin any thi .g of 
 greatnefs in his manner or capacity : his works have no more merit 
 than nnicalriefs, and that not in perfection, can give them. He after- 
 wards publifhed fix hiftoric pieces from pictures in the royal collection 
 at KeniiMgton, and the cieling at the Banquetting-hiufe; bui none of 
 his plates give any idea of the ftyle of the mailers they copied. His 
 prints at beft are neat memorandums. He executed a great number 
 of final! plates on gold, filver and copper; chiefly for books , but was 
 
 fitteft 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 119 
 
 fitteft to engrave patterns for goldfmith's work, I have a thick quarto 
 collected by himfelf, of all his fmall plates, which was fold by his fon 
 after his deceafe, which happened, without any previous ficknefs, in 
 Long-acre. He caught cold by going to fee the king in the houfe of 
 lords ; fell ill that night, continued fo next day and died the third, 
 aged 72. He left a fon and daughter : the fon graved in his father's 
 manner and went to Turkey in the retinue of the earl of Kinnoul, td 
 draw profpects, but returned in about two years. Gribelin the father 
 engraved fome portraits, as duke Schomberg, fir William Dawes, 
 and a fmall whole length of the earl of Shaftfbury for the Charac- 
 teriftics* 
 
 Sir NICHOLAS DORIGNY 
 
 Born in France, was fon of Michael Dorigny, by a daughter of 
 Vouet, the painter. His father dying while he was very young, 
 he was brought up to the ftudy of the law, which he purfued 
 till about thirty years of age, when being examined, in order to 
 being admitted to plead, the judge finding him very difficult of 
 hearing, advifed him to relinquifh a profefiion to which one of 
 his fenfes was fo ill adapted. He took the advice, and having a 
 brother a painter at Rome, determined to embrace the fame oc- 
 cupation ; and mut himfelf up for a year to practice drawing, 
 for which he probably had better talents than for the law, fince 
 he could fufficientiy ground himfelf in the latter in a twelvemonth. 
 Repairing to Rome and receiving inftructions from his brother, 
 he followed painting for fome years, when having acquired great free- 
 dom 
 
120 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 dom of hand, he was advifed to try etching. Being of a flexile difpo- 
 firion, or uncommonly obiervant of advice, he turned to etching, and 
 practiced that for fome more years •, when looking into the works of 
 Audran, he found he had been in a wrong method, and took up the 
 manner of the latter, which he purfued for ten years-— we are at lead 
 got to the fiftieth year of his age, if Vertut's memory or his own did 
 not fail him, for Vertue received this account from himfelf. He had 
 now done many plates, and laftly the gallery of Cupid and Pfyche 
 after Raphael — - when a new difficulty (truck him. Not having 
 learned the handling and right ufe of the graver, he defpaired of at- 
 taining the harmony and perfection at which he aimed — and at once 
 abandoning engraving, he returned to his pencils — - a word from a 
 friend would have thrown him back to the law — - however, after two 
 months, he was perfuaded to apply to the graver, and receiving fome 
 hints from one that ufed to engrave the writing under his plates, he 
 conquered that difficulty too, and began with a fet of planets. Mer- 
 cury, his firft, fucceeded fo well, that he engraved four large pictures 
 with oval tops, and from thence proceeded to Raphael's transfigura- 
 tion, which raifed his reputation above all the matters of that time. 
 
 ? At Rome he became known to feveral Englifnmen of rank, 
 1 7 1 1 > 
 
 -> who perfuaded him to come to England and engrave the Car- 
 toons. He arrived in June 171 1, but did not begin his drawings till 
 the Eafter following, the intervening time being fpent in raifing a 
 fund for his work. At firft it waspropofed'that the plates mould be 
 engraved at the queen's expence, and to be given as prefents to the no- 
 bility, foreign princes and minifters. Lord-treafurer Oxford was 
 much his friend -, but Dorigny demanding 4 or 5000/. put a itop to 
 
 that 
 
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 that plan ; yet the queen gave him an apartment at Hampton-court 
 .with neceffary perquifites. 
 
 The work however was undertaken by fubcription at four guineas 
 a fet. Yet the labour feeming too heavy for one hand, Dorigny fent 
 to Paris for affiftance, who were Charles Dupuis and Dubofc, who dif- 
 fered with him in two or three years before the plates were more than 
 half done. What relates farther to thofe engravers, will follow hefre-- 
 after. 
 
 April i, 17 19. Sir Nicholas prefented to king George I. two- 
 compleat fets of the Cartoons, and a fet each to the prince and prin- 
 cefs. The king gave him a |purfe of 100 guineas, and the prince a 
 gold medal. The duke of Devonlhire, of whom he had borrowed 
 400/. remitted to him the intereft of four years; and in the following 
 year procured him to be knighted by the king. He painted fame 
 portraits here, not with muchfuccefs in Jikenefs, and his eyes begin- 
 ning to fail, he retired to France in 1724. His collection of drawings 
 had been fold before in 1723. Among them were fome after Domi- 
 nichino and Guercino, and one after Daniel de Volterra, which Vertue 
 preferred to all his works. There were an * hundred and four heads, 
 hands and feet, traced off from the Cartoons. While he was making 
 drawings of the Cartoons, a perfon in London offered him 200/. for 
 them, but he would not conclude any agreement till the plates were 
 finifhed. They were fold at his auction for 52 guineas. The total 
 amount of his drawings came to 320/. iHis whole number of plates 
 large and fmall was 153. 
 
 Hh CHARLES 
 
 * Thefe were fold in one lot for 74/. feperately afterwards for 102/. 
 
122 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 CHARLES DUPUIS, 
 
 Befides part of the Cartoons, engraved fome plates of the ftory of 
 Charles 1. but differing with Dorigny, and the climate not agreeing 
 with him, he returned to Paris, where he died fuddenly in 1743.. 
 A younger brother of his came over, and did fome plates, but re- 
 turned foon, finding greater encouragement at home. 
 
 CLAUDE DU BOSC 
 
 Quitted Dorigny at the fame time with Dupuis, but fettled here, and 
 undertook to engrave the Cartoons * for printfellers. His next en- 
 gagement was a let of the duke of Marlborough's battles, to be per- 
 formed in two years for fourfcore pounds a plate, having no aid but 
 D.u Guernier who had been in England for fome years, and who was 
 chiefly employed* in etching frontifpieces for books and plays ; but 
 that help not being fufficient, Dubofc fent to Paris tor -J- Beauvais and 
 Baron, who afllfted him to eompleat the work, in 1 7 1 7. He after- 
 guards took' a fhop and fold prints. Picart having published his Reli- 
 gious Ceremonies in 1733, Dubofc undertook to give that work in, 
 Englifli, and brought over Gravelot and Scotin to carry it on ; it came 
 out weekly by fubfcription. Himfelfdid a plate from the fine pic- 
 ture of Scipio's continence by Nicolo Pouflin at Houghton. His 
 portrait was drawn by Smyberr, 
 
 LEWIS 
 
 * One Epiciere and Baron aflifted him, 
 t Of this mart I find no other account. 
 
C708 1 
 
 Gutahgue of Engravers. 123 
 
 LEWIS DU GUERNIER 
 
 Studied under Chatillon at Paris, and came to England in 
 1708, but with very moderate talents, though he was reckon- 
 ed to improve much here by drawing in the academy, which was then 
 frequented, though eftablifhed only by private contributions among 
 the artifts. Du Guernier was chofen director of it, and continued fo 
 to his death, which was occafioned by the fmall-pox Sept. 19, 1716Y 
 when he was but 39 years old. His chief bufinefs was engraving 
 frontifpieces for plays, and fuch fmall hiftories. His fhare in the 
 plates of the duke of MacI borough's battles has been mentioned. At 
 the inftance of lord Hall'ifax he did a large print of Lot and his two 
 daughters from Michael Angelo di Caravaggio, and two ample heads 
 of the duke and duchefs of Queenfberry. 
 
 GEORGE B I C K H A M, 
 
 t 
 
 Cotemporary with the lafr, engraved a few heads, as fir 
 Ifaac Newton's, and bifhop Blackall's; a folio fheet with fix 
 writing-mailers, one of whom, George Shelly, he engraved alfo from 
 the life, 1709. 
 
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 S. COIGNARD, 
 
 A name that I find only to a print of Dryden after Kneller. V. 
 Ames, p. 52. 
 
 T. JOHNSON, 
 
124. Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 T. JOHNSON, 
 
 An artift as obfcure as the preceding, graved a print of Bullock the 
 comedian from the life. 
 
 K I P* 
 
 Born at Amfterdam, arrived here not long after the Revolution. He 
 did a great number of plates, and very indifferently, of the palaces and 
 feats in this kingdom. They were firft drawn by one Leonard Knyff, 
 his countryman, who alfo painted fowls, dogs, &c. and dealt in pic- 
 tures. The latter died in Weftminfter 1721, aged between 60 and 
 70, having been many years in England. His pictures, which were 
 not extraordinary, were fold in 1723. Kip engraved an infide view 
 of the Danifh church built by Cibber, and died at near 70 years of 
 age in 1722, in a place called Long-ditch, Weftminfter. He left a 
 daughter whom he had brought up to painting. 
 
 GEORGE KING 
 
 Did plates of thf lady Falconberg, and of Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, 
 Another of his name, Daniel King, who publifhed the Vale Royal 
 of England, drew and engraved the plate of the cathedral at Chefter, 
 and feveral other views in the fame book. His manner refernbles 
 Hollar's. 
 
 S. NICHOLS, 
 
 * There had been before a William Kip who engraved fome triumphal 
 arches 1603. 
 
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 S. NICHOLS, 
 
 His prints mentioned by Ames are of James Owen, and a woman 
 called Yorkmire Nan. Some of thefe men feem to have been below 
 Vertue's notice, andconfequently are only mentioned here, that I may 
 not feem to have overlooked them. Indeed though Vertue thought 
 that the art raifed its head a little after the arrival of Dorigny, I find 
 very few, except himfelf, who can pafs for tolerable matters. 
 
 JOSEPH SIMPSON, 
 
 Was very low in his profeflion, cutting arms on pewter-plates, till 
 having ftudied in the academy, he was employed by Tillemans on a 
 plate of Newmarket, to which he was permitted to put his name, and 
 which though it did- not pleafe the painter, ferved to make Simpfon 
 known. He had a fon of both his names, of whom he had conceived 
 extraordinary hopes, but who died in 1736 without having attained 
 
 much excellence. 
 
 © 
 
 PETER VAN GUNST 
 
 ■> Was not in England himfelf, but engraved the fet of whole 
 37131 ° ° 
 
 S lengths after Vandyck. * Houbraken came from Holland in 
 3713 to make the drawings, for each of which he received 100 
 guilders. The perfons who employed him were Mr. Cock, Mr. 
 Comyns, and the late well-known Mr. Swinny, formerly director of 
 
 I i the 
 
 * I believe this was not Houbraken the engraver, but a painter of that 
 same, who gave the defigns for a hiftory of the bible. 
 
12 6 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 the theatre. Van Gunft had a fon who was twice in England, but 
 flaid not Ions. 
 
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 ROBERT or ROGER WILLIAMS, 
 
 A Welfhman, was, I believe, fenior to many I have mentioned. 
 He worked only in mezzotinto, in which he had good luccels. His 
 print of fir Richard Blackmore is uncommonly fine. Hfe contracted 
 a great lamenefs from a fprain, for which he had his leg cue off, and 
 lived many years afterwards. 
 
 W. WILSON 
 
 Did a mezzotinto of lady Newburgh, lord Lanfdown's Myra. 
 
 MICHAEL VANDERGUTCH 
 
 Of Antwerp, was fcholar of one Boutats, and mafter of Vertue, who 
 was told by him that Boutats had four daughters and twenty fons, of 
 whom twelve were engravers, and that one of them, Philip, had twelve 
 fons, of whom four were engravers. Vandergutch's own family, 
 though not fo numerous, has been alike dedicated to the art. When 
 Michael arrived here, does not appear. He practiced chiefly on ana- 
 tomic figures; but fometimes did other things, as a large print of the 
 royal Navy, on a fheet and half, defigned by one Ballon. His mafter- 
 piece was reckoned a print of Mr. Savage. He was much afflicted 
 with the gout, and died Oct. 16th. 1725, aged 65, at his houfe in 
 Bloomfbury, and was buried in St. Giles's. He left two fonsj 
 Gerard the fecond fon, now living, and 
 
 JOHN 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 127 
 
 JOHN VANDERGUTCH, 
 
 Who was born in 1697. He learned to draw of Cheron, and of his 
 father to engrave ; but chiefly practiced etching, which he fometimes 
 mixed with the other. He ftudied too in the academy. His fix 
 academic figures after Cheron were .admired *, and he is much com- 
 mended by Chefelden in the preface to his ©iteology, in the prints of 
 which he had much fhare, as he had in the plates from Sir James 
 Thornhill's cupola of St. Paul's. There is a print by him from 
 Pouflin's picture of Tancred and Erminia. 
 
 CLAUD DAVID 
 
 Of Burgundy, publifiied a print from the model of a fountain with the 
 ftatues of queen Anne, the duke of Marlborough on horfeback and 
 feveral river gods, which was propofed to be erected at the conduit in 
 Cheapfide. Under the print ; Opus equitis Claudii David, comitatus 
 Burgundise. 
 
 C H E R E A U, junr. 
 
 Came over by invitation from Dubofc, being brother of a famous 
 engraver -of that name at Paris, whofe manner he imitated. He 
 executed a profile of George I. which was much liked ; but afk- 
 ing extravagant prices, he found fmall encouragement and re- 
 turned home. 
 
 BERNARD 
 
128 Catalogue of Engravers, 
 
 BERNARD LENS 
 
 Was fon of a painter of the fame names, who died Feb. 5. 170?, 
 aged j j, and was buried in St. Bride's. He left four or five MSS. 
 volumes of collections on divinity. His fon, the fubjecl: of this ar- 
 ticle, was a mezzotinto-fcraper, and drawing- mafter; fometimes 
 etched, and drew for Swirt and other engravers. He copied the 
 Judgment of Paris in mezzotinto from fir Peter Lely, and did a 
 multiude of fmall prints in the fame way, chiefly hiftories and land- 
 fcapes, and drew feveral views in England in Indian ink. He died 
 April 28, 1725, aged 66. His fon was the incomparable painter in 
 water-colours, Bernard Lens, whofe copies from Rubens, Vandyck, 
 and many other great mafters, have all the merit of the originals, 
 except what they deferve too, duration. He was drawing-mafter to 
 the duke of Cumberland and the princefles Mary and Louifa, and to 
 one whom nothing but gratitude would excufe my joining with fuch. 
 names, the author of this work; my chief reafon for it, is to bear 
 teftimony to the virtues and integrity * of fo good a man, as well as 
 excellent artift. He died at Knightfbridge, whither he had retired, 
 after felling his collection. He left three fons ; the eldeft was a clerk 
 in my office at the Exchequer ; the two youngeft, ingenious painters 
 in miniature. 
 
 SAMUEL' 
 
 * Ones when he was drawing a lady's pi&ure in the drefs of the queen 
 of Scots, flie faid to him, "But, Mr. Lens, you have not made me like 
 the queen of Scots." " No, madam, if God Almighty haJ made your 
 tadvfoip like her, I would." This Bernard etched two or three little draw- 
 ing books oflandfcape. 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 129 
 
 SAMUEL MOORE 
 
 Of the Cuftom-houfe, drew and etched many works with- great la- 
 bour. He firfr. made a medley of fe'veral things, drawn, written and 
 painted ; one he prefented to fir Robert Harley, fpeaker of the Houfe 
 of Commons, afterwards earl of Oxford; it was aa imitation of 
 feveral forts of prints. 
 
 S C O T I N 
 
 No eminent artift, as appears by his print from Vandyck's Belifarius 
 at Chifwick. If the two fine pictures on this fubject are compared, ic 
 muft not be by fetting Scotin's near Mr. Strange's. To weigh the 
 merits of Salvator and Vandyck impartially, Mr. Strange fhould 
 engrave both ; I mean, to judge how each has delivered the paffions, 
 in which decifion we fhould not be diverted by the colouring. Indeed 
 one would fuppofe that Vandyck had feen Salvator's performance, and 
 defpairing to exceed him in the principal figure, h 33 transferred his art 
 and our attention to the young foldier. Salvator's Belifarius reflects 
 on his own fortune; Vandyck's warrior moralizes on the inftability of 
 glory. One afks one's felf which is more touching, to behold how 
 a great man feels adverfity, or how a young mind is ftruck with what 
 may be the cataftrophe of ambition ? 
 
 ,7l8 l 
 
 Mr. ENGLISH 
 
 Of Mortlack, who died in 171 8, etched a print of Ch rift 
 and the difciples at Emaus, after Titian, 
 
 Kk HENRY 
 
130 Catalogue, of Engravers. 
 
 HENRY HULSBERG, 
 
 Born at Amfterdam, did prints of fir Bulflrode Whitlocke, Robert 
 Warren, A. M. and Jofeph Warder, a phyfician -, fome of the plates 
 in the Vitihjvius Britannicus, a large view of St. Peter's church at 
 Rome, &c. and a head of Aaron Hill, for his Hiftory of the Otto- 
 man Empire, fol. 171 1. After a paralytic illnefs of two years he 
 died in 1729, and was buried in the Lutheran church of the Savoy, 
 of which he had been warden, and by which community and by a 
 Dutch club he had, been fupported, after he became incapable of 
 bufinefs. 
 
 JOHN FABER, 
 
 Born in Holland, drew many pictures from the life on * velom with 
 a pen, and fcraped feveral mezzotintos, both from paintings and 
 from nature. His moll confiderable works, and thofe not excellent, 
 were portraits of the founders of colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, 
 He died at Briflol in May 172 1. His fon, 
 
 JOHN FABER junr. 
 
 Surpafled his father by far, and was the next mezzotinter in merit to 
 Smith. He was born in Holland, but brought to England at three 
 years old. His firft inftru&ions he received from his father ; after- 
 wards he ftudied in Vanderbank's academy. He executed a prodigi* 
 
 ous 
 * Vertue had feen one of tlrcfe frnall heads, infcribed, J. Faber delin. 
 in Graven Hage 1692. 
 
Catalogue of Engraven, 131 
 
 ©us number of portraits, fome of which are bold, free and beautifull. 
 To him we owe the kit-cat-club, the beauties at Hampton-court, and 
 have reafon to wifh that we had the fame obligations t6 him for thofe 
 at Windfor. He died of the gout very few years ago at his houfe in 
 Bloomfbury. His widow married Mr. Smith, a lawyer. 
 
 EDWARD KIRKALL, 
 
 Sort of a lock-fmith, was born at Sheffield in Yorkfhire, where he at- 
 tained the rudiments of drawing, which however were long before 
 they arrived at any perfection. He came to London, and for fome 
 time fupported himfelf by graving arms, ftamps, ornaments, and cuts 
 for books *. The latter gained him an immortality, which with all 
 his fucceeding merit he perhaps would have miffed, if his happening 
 to engrave the portrait of a lady Dunce had not introduced him to 
 the remark of Mr. Pope, who defcribes her 
 
 With flow'rs and fruit by bounteous Xirkall d'reft. 
 At length, drawing in the academy, and making fome attempts in chiaro 
 fcuro, he difcovered a new method of printing, compofed of etching, 
 mezzotinto and wooden ftamps, and with thefe blended arts he formed 
 a ftyle, that has more tints than ancient wooden cuts, refembles draw- 
 ings, and by the addition of mezzotinto, foftens the fhades on the out- 
 lines, and more infenfib'y and and agreeably melts the imprefiion of the 
 wooden ftamps, which give the tincture to the paper and the fhades 
 together. He performed feveral prints in this manner, and did .great 
 juftice to the drawing and exprefiion of the mafters he imitated. This 
 invention, for one may call it fo, had much fuccefs, much applaufe, 
 
 no 
 * In 1725 he did the cuts for the new edition of Inigo Jones's Stonehenge.- 
 
1 3 5 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 no imitators.-— I fuppofe it is too laborious, and too tedious. In an 
 opulent country where there is great facility of getting money, it is 
 feldom got by merit. Our artifts are in too much hurry to gain it, 
 to deferve it. 
 
 JAMES CHRISTOPHER LE BLON, 
 
 Another inventor in an age which however has not been allotted any 
 eminent rank in the hiftory of arts. He naturally follows Kirkall, as 
 there was fame analogy in their purfuits. The former, if I may fay 
 fo, attempted to punt drawings, the latter to print paintings. He was* 
 a Frenchman, and very far from young when I knew him, but of iur- 
 prizing vivacity and volubility, and with a head admirably mechanic, 
 but an univerfal projector, and with at leaft one of the qualities that 
 ettend that vocation, either a dupe or a cheat ; I think the former, 
 though as mbft of his projects ended in air, the fufferers believed 
 the latter. As he was much an enthufiaft, perhaps like moft enthu- 
 fjafts he was both one and t'other. 
 
 He difcovered a method of giving colour to mezzorinto, and per- 
 fected many larger pictures, which may be allowed very tolerable co- 
 pies of the bed mailers. Thus far his vifions were realized. He dif- 
 tributed them by a kind of lottery, but the fubfcribers did not find 
 their prizes much valued. Yet furely the art was worth improving, 
 at leaft in a country fo fond of portraits. Le Blon's method of mez- 
 zotinto at leaft adds the refemblance of colour. 
 
 He had another merit to the public, with which few inventors 
 begin •, he communicated his fecret, in a thin quarto in French and 
 Fnglifh intituled, " Coloritto, or the Harmony of Colouring in 
 Painting, reduced to Mechanical Practice under eafy Precepts and 
 
 infallible 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 133 
 
 infallible Rules." Dedicated to fir Robert Walpole. In the pre- 
 face he fays that he was executing anatomic figures for monfieur St. 
 Andre. Some heads coloured progreffively according to the feveral 
 gradations bear witnefs to thefuccefs and beauty of his invention. In 
 1732 he publifhed a treatife on Ideal Beauty, or le Beau Ideal, dedica- 
 ted to lady Walpole. It was tranflated from the original French of 
 Lambert Hermanfon Ten Kate. 
 
 He afterwards fet up a project for copying the Cartoons in tapeftry, 
 and made fome very fine drawings for that purpofe. Houfes were 
 built and looms erected in the Mulberry-ground at Chelfea, but either 
 the expence was precipitated too fart, or contributions did not arrive 
 fail enough : The bubble burft, feveral fuffered, and Le Blon was 
 heard of no more. 
 
 JOHN SIMON 
 
 Was born in Normandy, and came over fome years before the death 
 of Smith, who difagreeing with Sir Godfrey Kneller, Simon was em- 
 ployed by him to copy his pictures in mezzotinto, which he did, and 
 from other mafters with good fuccefs. He was not fo free in his man- 
 ner as Smith, but now and then approached very near to that capital 
 artift, as may befeen in his plates of Henry Rouvigny earl of Galway, 
 of earl Cadogan, and particularly of lord Cutts in armour with a 
 truncheon. Simon died about the year 1755. His collection of 
 prints were fold by auction at Darres's printihop in Piccadilly over- 
 againft Coventry-ftreet Nov. 3d, 1761. 
 
 LI L. BO I TAR D 
 
134- Catalogue of Engraven. 
 
 L. B O I T A R D 
 
 Was a Frenchman, and very neat workman. He engraved chiefly 
 for books, and was employed by Dr. Woodward, by Dr. Douglas on 
 anatomic figures, and by Dr. Meade. He engraved a large print of 
 the rotunda after Paolo Panini, and the plates for Mr. Spence's 
 Polymetis. He maried an Englifh woman and lefc a Ton and a daughter. 
 Boitard's father, who went often to Holland to p.- .,ak curiofities 
 for Dr. Meade, drew with the pen, in the manner of La Fage, and 
 often fet his name to his drawings with the time he had employed on 
 them, which fometimes, even for large pieces, did not exceed fifteen 
 minutes. Showing one of his defigns toDongny, and boafling of this 
 expedition, fir Nicholas told him he fhould have thought a man of his 
 vivacity might have executed two fuch in the time. 
 
 i7 2 5] 
 
 B. B A R O N, 
 
 Brought over, as has been faid by Dubofc, with whom he 
 broke and went to law, on the plates for theftory ofUlyfies, 
 engraven from the defigns of Rubens in the collection of Dr. Meade, 
 but they were reconciled, and went tojParis together in 1729, where 
 Baron engraved a plate from Watteau, and engaged to do another 
 from Titian in the king's collection, for monfieur Crozat, for which 
 he was to receive 60/. fterling. While at Paris, they both fat to Van- 
 loo. Baron has executed a great number of works, a few portraits, 
 and fome confiderable pictures after the beft matters ; as the family of 
 Cornaro at Northumberland-hoafe j Vandyck's family of the earl of 
 Pembroke at Wilton ; Henry VIII. giving the charter to the company 
 
 of 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. £35 
 
 of furgeons; the equeftrian figure of Charles I. by Vandyck at Ken- 
 fington •, its companion, the king, queen and two children ; and king 
 William on horfeback with emblematic figures, at Hampton-court. 
 His laft confiderable work was the family of Naflau by Vandyck at 
 the earl of Cowper's. Baron died in Panton-fquare Piccadilly, Jan, 
 24th, 1762. 
 
 HENRY GRAVELOT 
 
 Was not much known as an engraver, but was an excellent draught)- 
 man, and drew defigns for ornaments in great tafte, and was a faith- 
 full copyift of ancient buildings, tombs, and profpefts, for which he 
 was constantly employed by the artifts in London. He drew the mo- 
 numents of kings for Vertue, and gave the defigns, where invention 
 was necefiary, for Pine's plates of the tapeftry, in the Houfe of Lords. 
 He had been in Canada as Secretary to the governor, but the climate 
 difagreeing with him, he returned to France,' whence he was invited 
 over by Dubofc. He was for forne time employed in Gloucefterfhire, 
 drawing churches and antiquities. Vertue compares his neat manner 
 toPicart, and owns that in composition and defign he even excelled 
 his favourite Hollar. He fometimes attempted painting fmall hifto- 
 ries and converfations. Of his graving are the prints to fir Thomas 
 Hanmer's edition of Shakefpear, and many of them he defigned; but 
 it is his large print of Kirkftall-abbey which mows how able an en- 
 graver he was. 
 
 JOHN PINE 
 
 Need but be mentioned, to put the public in mind of the feveral beau- 
 cifull and fine works for which they are indebted to him, The chief 
 
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136 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 of them are, the ceremonies ufed at the revival of the order of the 
 Bath by king George I. the prints from the tapeftry in the Houfe of 
 Lords, reprefenting the deftruction of the Spanifli armada, a book 
 rivalling the fplendid editions of the Louvre ; and the fair edition of 
 Horace, the whole text engraven, with ancient bafreliefs and gems 
 illuftrating the fubjects. He has given too a print of the Houfe of 
 Commons, fome ancient charters and other things. His head painted 
 by Mr. Hogarth in the manner of Rembrandt is well-known from the 
 print. 
 
 ARTHUR POND, 
 
 Another promoter of meritorious works, was concerned with Mr. 
 Knapton in letting forth the noble volume of illuftrious heads, en- 
 graved by Houbraken and Vertue, and which might ftill be enlarged. 
 Mr. Pond was author too of the defign for engraving the works of 
 Claud Lorrain and Gafpar Pouffin, of which feveral numbers were 
 exhibited •, a few landfcapes from Rembrandt, and other mailers, 
 and prints from Paolo Panini followed. He alfo publifhed many 
 prints from fine drawings, and a fet of caricaturas after Cavalier 
 Ghezzi. Mr. Pond had fmgular knowledge in hands, but con- 
 llderably more merit as an editor than as a painter, which was his 
 profetfion both in oil and crayons. He had formed a capital col- 
 lection of etchings by the beft mafters, and of prints, all which he 
 difpofed of to a gentleman in Norfolk : they have fince been fold by 
 auction, as were his cabinet of fhells after his death. He etched hia 
 own head, Dr. Meade's, Mr. Sadler's, Pope's and lord Bolingbroke's. 
 
 HENRY 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 1 3:7 
 
 HENRY FLETCHER 
 
 7 Publifhed a print, the flory of Bathfheba, from Sebaftian 
 i Concha, his firft efiay on his own account. He alfo engraved 
 a print of Ebenezer Pemberton, minifter of Bofton. 
 
 »73o] 
 
 CAREY CREED 
 
 Publifhed a fet of plates from the ftatues and bufts af 
 Wilton. 
 
 JOSEPH WAGNER 
 
 i A Swifs, came to England in 1733, aged between 20 and 
 .» 30. He had ftudied painting a little, but being encouraged 
 by Amiconi, engraved after the works of the latter. His firft pro- 
 ductions were plates of the three princeffes, Anne, Amelie, and Ca- 
 roline; his next, a whole length of the czarina Anne. He afterwards 
 executed two prints of boys, and about an hundred plates, views of 
 Roman antiquities, moft of them copied from old engravings, and 
 from Canaletti fome profpecls of Venice, whither he accompanied 
 Amiconi, intending to keep a printfhop there. 
 
 THOMAS PRESTON 
 
 Did a print of Mr. Pope, and a large head of admiral Blake, with 
 ilhips under it. 
 
 Mm JOHN 
 
138 Catalogue of Engravers. 
 
 JOHN LAGUERRE 
 
 Was fon of Lewis Laguerre, a painter of hiftory, by whom ne was 
 educated to the fame profeflion, and had a genius for it — but neglect- 
 ing to cultivate it, he took to the ftage, in which walk he had merit, 
 as he had fuccefs in painting fcenes for the theatre in Covent-garden, 
 to which he belonged. He engraved a print of Falltaffe, Piftol and 
 Dol. Tearfheet, with other theatric characters, alluding to a quarrel 
 between the players and patentees, and a fet of prints, of Hob in the 
 Well, which fold confiderably ; but he died in indifferent circumftan- 
 ces in March 1748. Lewis the Father etched a print of Midas 
 fitting in judgment between Pan and Apollo. 
 
 PETER FOURDRINIERE 
 
 Who died a few years ago, excelled in engraving architecture, and 
 did many other things for books. 
 
 JOHN G R E E N 
 
 A young man who made great proficience in graving landfcapes, and 
 other things-, particularly heads of Thomas Rowney, Thomas Shaw, 
 D. D. W. Derham, D. D. and the plates for Borlafe's Natural Hiftory 
 of Cornwall, and many of the Seats ; was born at Hales Owen in 
 Shropfhire, and bred under Bafire an engraver of maps, father of the 
 prefent engraver to the Antiquarian Society. Green was employed 
 by the Univerfity of Oxford, and continued their almanacs •, but 
 Jied immaturely three or four years ago. His brother is in the fame 
 o-ufinefs. 
 
 Befidea 
 
Catalogue of Engravers. 139 
 
 Befides all I have mentioned, difperfed irt Vertue's MSS. I have 
 fince found fome more names, of whom the notices are fo flight, that 
 it is not worth while to endeavour finding proper places for them. 
 Their names are, Morellon la Cave*, a fcholar of Picart, J.Cole, P. 
 Williamfon, G. Lumley who fettled at York, P. Tempeft, Peter 
 Coombes, P. Pelham, E. Kyte, George Kitchin, who did heads of 
 Mahomet and Muftapha, Turks belonging to George I. and William 
 Robins, Alexander Brown, andDeBlois, mezzotinters; Van Bleek-f- 
 who executed of late years a fine print of Johnfon and Griffin players, 
 and A. Van Haecken, who has given a head of Dr. Pepufch and 
 fome others. John Stone the younger drew and engraved one of the 
 plates for Dugdale's Warwickfhire. T. Pingo did a plate of arms 
 for Thorefby's Leeds ; S. Boiffeau a plate for Aaron Hill's Hiftory of 
 the Ottoman Empire ; and Th. Gardner a fet for the Common 
 Prayer Paraphrafed by James Harris, 1735. Several Englifh portraits 
 have been engraved abroad, particularly, by Cornelius Van Dalen, 
 Arthur De Jode and P. De Jode, J. De Leuw, Pontius, Edelinck, 
 and Picart. Many alfo have been engraved by unknown hands. 
 
 To the conclufion of thefe Memoires, and for a feperate article I 
 referve an account of him, to whom his country, the artifts whofe 
 Memories he has preferved, and the reader, are obliged for the mate- 
 rials of this work, 
 
 On living artifts it is neither neceffary nor proper to expatiate. The 
 Talk will be eafy to others hereafter to continue the feries. Here is 
 a regular fucceffion from the introduction of the art into England to 
 
 the 
 
 * He did a head of Dr. Pococke before Twells's edition of the do&or's 
 works. 
 
 f He died July 2,6, 1764. 
 
14c Catalogue of Engravers* 
 
 the prefent year; and the chief a^ras of its improvements and exten- 
 sion marked. That the continuation will afford a brighter lift, one 
 may augur, from the protection given to the arts, from the riches and 
 flourifhing ftate of our dominion, and from the mafters we actually 
 poflefs. Houfton, Mac Ardell, and Fifher have already promifed by 
 their works to revive the beauty of mezzotinto. The exquifite plates 
 of architecture, which daily appear, are not only worthy of the tafte 
 which is reftored in that fcience, but exceed whatever has appeared in 
 any age or country. Mr. Rooker is the Marc Antonio of architecture. 
 Vivares, and fome others, have great merit in graving landfcape. 
 Major's works after Teniers, &c. will always make a principal figure 
 in a collection of prints, and prevent our envying the excellence of 
 the French in that branch of the art. I could name more, if it would 
 not look like flattery to the living; but I cannot omit fo capital a 
 mafter as Mr. Strange, leaft it fhould look like the contrary. When 
 I have named him, I have mentioned the art at its higheft period in 
 Britain. 
 
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 Mr. GEORGE VERTUE. 
 
 THE enfuing account is drawn from his own notes, in which 
 the higheft praife he ventures to aflbme is founded on his 
 induftry — How many men in a higher fphere have thought 
 that fingle quality conferred many mining others ! The world too has 
 been fo complaifant as to allow their pretentions. Vertue thought the 
 labour of his hands was but labour — the Scaligers and fuch book- 
 wights have miftaken the drudgery of their eyes for parts, for abili- 
 ties — nay,' have fuppofed it bellowed wit, while it only fwelled their 
 .arrogance, and unchained their ill-nature. How contemptuoully 
 would fuch men have fmiled at a ploughman, who imagined himfelf 
 authorized to abufe all others, becaufe he had turned up more acres of 
 .ground, — and yet he would have toiled with greater advantage to 
 jnankind. 
 
 N n George 
 
2 The Life of Mr. George Vertue. 
 
 George Vertue was born in the parifh or" St. Martin's in the Fields, 
 London, in the year 16S4. His parents, he fays, were more honeft 
 than opulenr. If vanity had entered into his compofition, he might 
 have boalted the antiquity of his race: two of his name were em- 
 ployed by Henry VIII. in the board of works ; but I forget j a fami- 
 ly is not ancient, if none of the blood were above the rank of inge- 
 nious men two hundred years ago. 
 
 About the age of thirteen he was placed with a mailer who en- 
 graved arms on plate, and lvd the chief bufinefs of London ; but who 
 being extravagant, broke and returned to his country, France, after 
 • Vertue had ferved him between three and four years. As the man was 
 unfortunate, though by his own fault, the good-nature of the fcholar 
 has concealed his name. As it is proper the republic of letters fhould 
 be acquainted with the minuteft circumftances in the life of a renown- 
 ed author, I'queftion if Scaliger would have been fo tender. 
 
 Returned to his parents, Vertue gave him felt entirely to the ftudy 
 of drawing for two years; and then entered into an agreement with 
 Michael Vandergutch for three more, which term he protracted to 
 leven, engraving copper-plates for him, when having received in- 
 ftructions and advice from feveral painters, he quitted his mailer on 
 handfome terms, and began to work for himfelf. This was in the 
 year 1 709. The firft twelvemonth was palled in drawing and en- 
 graving for books. 
 
 The art was then at the loweft ebb in England. The beft perform- 
 ers were worn out : the war with France fhut the door againft recruits ; 
 national acrimony, and the animofity of faction diverted public atten- 
 tion from common arts of amufement. At that period the young en- 
 graver was recommended to fir Godfrey Kneller, whofe reputation, 
 
 riches, 
 
The Life of Mr. George Vertue. § 
 
 'riches, parts and acquaintance with the firft men in England fupported 
 what little tafte was left for Virtu, and could (lamp a character where 
 ever he deigned to patronize. My author mentions with dutifull fen- 
 fibility what joy this important protection gave to his father, who had 
 his education warmly at heart, and who dying foon after, left a widow 
 and feveral children to be fupported by our fcarce fledged adventurer. 
 His own words (hall tell how he felt his fituation, how little the falfe 
 colours of vanity gave a fhining appearance to the morning of his 
 fortune; " I was, fays he, the eldeft, and then the only one that coukt. 
 help them, which added circumfpection in my affairs then, as well as 
 induftry to the end of my life." 
 
 At intervals of leifure, he practiced drawing and mufic, learned. 
 French and a little Italian. It appears that he afterwards acquired 
 Dutch, having confulted in the originals all that has been written in 
 thofe three languages on the art to which he was devoted. 
 
 His works began to draw attention, and he found more illuftrious 
 patronage than Kneller's. Lord Somers employed him to engrave a 
 plate of archbifhop Tillotfon, and rewarded him nobly. The print 
 will fpeak for itfelf. It was the groundwork of his reputation, and 
 deferved to be fo. Nothing like it had appeared for fome years, nor 
 .at the hour of its production, hajd he any competitors. Edelinck was 
 dead in France, White in England, Van Gunft in Holland : " It 
 feemed, fays he himfelf, as if the ball of fortune was toffed up to be a 
 prize only for Vertue." One cannot eftimate fuccefs at a lower rate, 
 than to afcribe it to accident; the comparifon is at once modefl and in- 
 genious. Shade of Scaliger, which of your works owed its glory to 
 a dearth of genius- among your cotemporaries ? 
 
 In 
 
4 The Life of Mr. George Vertue. 
 
 In 171 1 an academy of painting was inftituted by the chief per- 
 formers in London. Sir Godfrey Kneller was placed at the head % 
 Vertue was one of the firll members; and drew there for feveral 
 years. 
 
 To the end of that reign he continued to grave portraits from 
 Kneller, Dahl, Richardfon, Jeryafe, Giblbn and others. 
 
 On the acceffion of the prefent royal family he publifhed a large head 
 of the king from a painting by Kneller. As it was the firll: portrait 
 of his majeity, many thoufands were ibid, though by no means a la- 
 borious or valuable performance. However it was fliown at court, 
 and was followed by thofe of the prince and princefs. All concurred 
 1 \:e::d his bulinefs. In any recefs from that he practiced in water- 
 arS, fometimes attempting portrait; oftener copying from an- 
 : or curious pieces which he propofed to engrave. So early as the 
 ■ear i 1 s be commenced his researches after the lives of our artifts, 
 n : began his collections, to wjj.ich he added prints by former mailers, 
 inti every thing thatCOiUd Und to his great work, the Hiftory of the 
 Arts in England. Wherever be met with portraits of the perform- 
 ers, iie 1 pa red no pains in talcing copies. His journies over England 
 with t!ic lame view will appear in the courfe of his life. Thefe tra- 
 •: v. -re afliduoi'ily employed in making catalogues, obfervations, 
 memorandum* of all he (aw. 
 His thiril a ."ter Britifh antiquities foon led him to a congenial Mae- 
 cenas. That munificent collector Robert Harley, fecond earl of Ox- 
 ford, early ddlinguifhcd the merit and application of Vertue. The 
 invariable gratitude of the latter, exprefied on all occafions, implies 
 the bounty oi the natron. " The earl's generous and unparallelled 
 
 encou- 
 
The Life of Mr. George Vertue. 5 
 
 encouragement of my undertakings, by promoting my ftudious en- 
 deavours, fays he, gave me great reputation and advantage over all 
 other profeffors of the fame art in England." Another leffon of hu- 
 mility. How feldom is fame afcribed by the poffeffor to the counte- 
 nance of others ! The want of it is complained of — here is one in- 
 ftance, perhaps a Angular inftance, where the influence is acknow- 
 ledged — after the death of the benefactor. 
 
 Another patron was Heneage Finch * earl of "Winchelfea, whofe 
 picture he painted, and engraved ; and who, being prefident of the 
 fociety of Antiquaries on the revival in 1717, appointed Vertue, who 
 was a member, engraver to it. The plates publifhed by that fociety 
 from curious remains were moft of them by his hand as long as he 
 lived, are a valuable monument, and will be evidence that that body 
 is not ufelefs in the learned world. 
 
 The Univerfity of Oxford employed him for many years to engrave 
 their almanacs. Inftead of infipid emblems that deferved no longer 
 duration than what they adorned, he introduced views of public 
 buildings and hiftoric events ; for he feldom reaped benefit from the 
 public, without repaying it with information. 
 
 Henry Hare, the laft lord Coleraine, an antiquary and collector as 
 his grandfather had been, is enumerated by Vertue among his pro- 
 tectors. His travels were dignified by accompanying thofe lords. 
 They bore the expence which would have debarred him from vifiting 
 many objects of his curiofity, if at his own charge ; and he made 
 their journies more delightfull, by explaining, taking draughts, and 
 keeping a regifter of what they faw. This was the cafe in a journey 
 he took with lord Coleraine to Salifbury, Wilton and Stonehenge, 
 
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6 The Life of Mr. George Vertue. 
 
 Of the latter he made feveral views : Wilton he probably faw with 
 only Englifh eyes. Amid legions of warriors and emperors, he 
 fought Vandyck and Rubens, Holbein and Inigo Jones. An antique 
 and modern virtuofo might inhabit that palace of arts, and never in- 
 terfere. An ancient indeed would be a little iurprifed to find fo many 
 of his acquaintance new baptized. Earl Thomas did not, like the 
 . popes, convert pagan chiefs into chriftians, but many an emperor 
 acts the part at Wilton of fcarcer Csefars. 
 
 In 1726 Vertue, with Mr. Stephens the hiftoriographer, vifited St. 
 Albans, Verulam and Gorhambury. At the latter he made a drawing 
 from the picture of fir Francis Bacon. 
 
 Great part of his time was employed for lord Oxford, for whom 
 he engraved portraits of Mr. Prior, fir Hugh Middleton, &c. For 
 the duke of Montagu he did fir Ralph Winwood ; for fir Paul Me- 
 thuen, Cortez; archbifhop Warham from Holbein's original at Lam- 
 beth •, and for lord Burlington, Zucchero's que p n of Scots. 
 
 His prints growing numerous, many per'.ons were defirous of 
 having a compleat collection. He made uo fets for fir Thomas 
 Frankland, for Mr. Weft, and for lord Oxford ; the lalt in three 
 large volumes, carried down to 1741, and fold after the earl's death 
 to the late earl of Ailefbury for 50 guineas. 
 
 In 1727 he went to Wimpole tor a week, and thence made a tour 
 with lord Oxford for fix weeks more, to Stamford, Burleigh, Gran- 
 tham, Lincoln, and Welbeck, one of the ancient feats of the countefs 
 of Oxford, where after the earl's death fhe affembled the portraits of 
 her anceftors to a prodigious number, the heroes of many an illuftrious 
 race. Thence they pafied to Chatfworth, and York, where Vertue 
 had the pleafure of converfing with Mr. Francis Place, who had been 
 
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The Life of Mr. George Vertue. 7 
 
 Intimate with Hollar. Trifling circumftances to thofe who do not 
 feel what he felt. Vertue drew up an account of this progrefs and 
 prefented it to his patron. 
 
 For fome years his ftages were marked by noble encouragement, 
 and by opportunities of purfuing his favorite erudition. He was in- 
 vited whither he would have wilhed to make pilgrimages, for the love 
 of antiquity is a kind of devotion, and Mr. Vertue had different fets of 
 faints. In 1728 the duke of Dorfet called him to Knowle. Humble 
 before his fuperiors, one conceives how his refpect was heightened ac 
 entering fo venerable a pile, realizing to his eyes the fcenes of many a 
 waking vifion. Here he drew feveral of the poets. But he was on 
 fairy ground ; Arcadia was on the confines ; could he refill an excur- 
 sion to Penfhurft ? One may judge how high his enthufiafm had been 
 wrought, by the mortification he exprefTes at not finding there a por- 
 trait of fir Philip Sidney. 
 
 In 1730 appeared his twelve heads of poets, one of his capital 
 works. Though poetry was but a fifter art, he treated it with the af- 
 fection of a relation. He had collected many notes touching the pro- 
 feflbrs, and here and there in his MSS. are fome flight attempts of his 
 own. But he was of too timid and correct a nature to foar where 
 fancy only guides. Truth was his province, and he had a felicity 
 uncommon to antiquaries, he never fuffered his imagination to lend 
 him eyes. Where he could not difcover he never fupplied. 
 
 After his poets, of which he propofed to enlarge the feries, it was 
 his purpofe to give fets or clafTes of other eminent men. This was 
 the firfl idea of illuflrious heads, a hint afterwards adopted by others, 
 and at laft taken out of bis hands, who was beft furnifhed with mate- 
 rials 
 
8 The Life of Mr. George Vertue. 
 
 rials for fuch a work. Some branches he executed himfelf with de- 
 ferved applanfe. 
 
 About this time he again went to Oxford, copied fome original 
 paintings, and teok an account of what portraits they have of found- 
 ers and benefactors and where depofited. Thence to Gloucester to 
 draw the monument of Edward II. having for fome years been col- 
 lecting and making drawings of our kings, from images, miniatures 
 or oil-paintings ; a work foon after unexpectedly called forth. On 
 his return he (topped at Burford to view the family-piece of fir Tho- 
 mas More, and vifited Ditchley and Blenheim. His next tour was 
 to Cambridge, where he had been privately engaged to draw by 
 Health the portrait of old Mr. Thomas Baker of St. John's, then an 
 eminent antiquary, earlier in his life the modeft author of that inge- 
 nious and polifhed little piece, Reflexions on Learning. 
 
 Vertue's next confiderable production was the heads of Charles I. 
 and the loyal fufFerers in his caufe, with their' characters fubjoined 
 from Clarendon. But this was fcarce finifhed, before appeared Ra- 
 pin's Hiftory of England, " a work, fays he, that had a prodigious 
 run, efpecially after translated, infomuch that it became all the con- 
 verfation of the town and country, and the noife being heightened by 
 oppofuion and party, it was propofed to publifh it in folio by num- 
 bers— thoufands were fold every week." The two brothers, Knap- 
 tons, engaged Vertue to accompany it with effigies of kings, and 
 iuitable decorations. This undertaking employed him for three 
 years. A fair copy richly bound he prefented to Frederic prince of 
 "Wales at Kenfington, A volume of his beft works he gave to the 
 Bodleian library. 
 
 In 
 
The Life of Mr. George Vertue. 9 
 
 In 173-}. he renewed his journies about England. With Roger Gale 
 the antiquary he went to St. Alban's, Northampton and Warwick. 
 In 1737 the earl of Leicefter carried him to Penfhurft; and the end 
 of the fame year lord Oxford took him again to Oxford, to Compton 
 Verney, the feat of the m after of the rolls, to Warwick, Coventry, 
 Birmingham, and to lord Digby's at Colefhill, to view the curious 
 picture of queen Elizabeth's proceffion, fince removed by the late lord 
 to Sherborn caftle in Dorfetfhire. They returned by Stratford (Ver- 
 tue did not want true devotion to Shakefpear ) by Mr. Sheldon's at 
 Wefton, where are a few curious pictures, faw Blenheim, and Mr. 
 Waller's at Beconsfield. The next year he went into Hertfordfhire 
 to verify his ideas about Hunfdon, the fubject as he thought of queen 
 Elizabeth's progrefs. The old lord Digby, who from tradition be- 
 lieved it the queen's proceffion to St. Paul's after the destruction of 
 the Armada, was difpleafed with Vertue's new hypothefis. The fame 
 year he faw Windfor and Mr. Topham's collection of drawings at 
 Eton. 
 
 He next engaged with the Knaptons to engrave fome of the illuf- 
 trious heads, the greater part of which were executed by Houbraken, 
 and undoubtedly furpaffed thofe of Vertue. Yet his performances by 
 no means deferved to be condemned as they were by the undertakers, 
 and the performer laid afide. Some of Houbraken's were carelefsly 
 done, efpecially of the moderns; but Vertue had a fault to dealers, 
 which was a merit to the public : his fcrupulous veracity could not 
 digeft imaginary portraits, as are fome of thofe engraved by Hou- 
 braken, who living in Holland, ignorant of our hiftory, uninquifitive 
 into the authenticity of what was tranfmitted to him, engraved what- 
 ever was fent. I will mention two inftances ; the heads of Carr earl 
 
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 of Somerfet and fecretary Thurloe are not only not genuine, but have 
 not the leaft refemblance to the perfons they pretend to reprefent, 
 Vertue was incommode ; he loved truth. 
 
 Towards the end of 1738 he made another tour with lord Oxford 
 through Kent and Suffex, vifiting Rochefter, Canterbury, Chichefter, 
 Portfmouth, Southampton and Winchefter-, and the principal feats, as 
 Petworth, Goodwood, Stanfted, and Coudray — the laft alone worth 
 an antiquary's journey. Of all thefe he made various fketches and 
 notes-, always prefenting a duplicate of his obfervations to lord 
 Oxford. 
 
 He had yet another purfuit, which I have not mentioned ; no mart 
 had ftudied Englifh coins more j part of his refearches have appeared 
 in his account of the two Simons. 
 
 Heftill wanted to vifit theeaft of England. In 1739 his wifh was 
 gratified ; lord Coleraine, who had an eftate at Walpole on the bor- 
 ders of Norfolk in Lincolnfhire, carried him byWanfted, Moufham, 
 Gosfield, St. Edmundfbury, fir Andrew Fountain's and Houghton 
 to Lynn, and thence to Walpole •, in which circuit they faw many 
 churches and other feats. 
 
 In 1 740 he publifhed his propofals for the commencement of a very 
 valuable work, his hilloric prints, drawn with extreme labour and 
 fidelity, and executed in a moft fatisfadtory manner. Queen Eliza- 
 beth's progrefs he copied exactly in water-colours for lord Oxford, 
 who was fo pleafed with it, that he fent Mr. Vertue and his wife a 
 prefent of about 60 ounces of plate — but thus arrived at the fummit 
 of his modeft wifhes, that is, rewarded for illuftrating Englifh hiftory 
 — his happinefs was fuddenly dafhed •, he loft his noble friend the 
 earl, who died June 16, 1741. " Death, fays he emphatically, put 
 
 an 
 
The Life of Mr. George Vertue. if 
 
 an end to that life that had been the fupport, cherifher, and comfort 
 of many, many others, who are left to lament — but none more 
 heartily than Venue !" 
 
 So ftruck was the poor man with this fignal misfortune, that for 
 two years there is an hiatus in his ftory — he had not fpirits even to- 
 be minute. 
 
 In 1743 he was a little revived by acquiring the honour of the duke 
 of Norfolk's notice, for whom he engraved the large plate of the earl 
 of Arundel and his family. For his grace too he collected two vo- 
 lumes of the works of Hollar, chiefly of thofe graved from the Arun- 
 delian collection ; and having formed another curious volume of 
 drawings from portraits, monuments, pedigrees, &e. of the houfe of 
 Howard, the duke made him a prefent of a bank note of 100 /. 
 
 His merit and modefty flill raifed- him friends, the countefs dow- 
 ager of Oxford alleviated his lofs of her lord : their daughter the 
 duchefs of Portland he mentions with equal gratitude ; the late duke 
 of Richmond and lord Burlington did not forget him among the artifts 
 they patronized. But in 1749 he found a yet more exalted protector. 
 The late prince of Wales fent for him, and finding him matter of 
 whatever related to Englifh antiquity, and particularly converfant in 
 the hiftory of king Charles's collection, which his royal hignefs wi fried 
 as far as poffible to reafTemble, he often had the honour of attending 
 the prince, was fhown his pictures by himfelf, and accompanied him 
 to the royal palaces, and was much employed in collecting prints for 
 him and taking catalogues, and fold him many of his own miniatures 
 and prints. 
 
 He had now reafon to flatter himfelf with permanent fortune. He 
 law his fate linked with the revival of the arts he loved ; he was ufe- 
 
 full 
 
12 The Life of Mr. George Vertue. 
 
 full to a prince who trod in the fleps of the accomplifhed Charles ; no 
 Hugh Peters threatened havoc to the growing collection --- but a 
 filent and unexpected foe drew a veil over this fcene of comfort, as it 
 had over the former. Touched yet fubmifiive, he fays, after painting 
 the prince's qualifications, and the hopes that his country had con- 
 ceived of him, --- " but alas, Mors ultima rerum! O God, thy will be 
 done! Unhappy day, Wednefday March 20th. 1751 !" His trembling 
 hand inferts a few more memorandums of prints he engraved, and 
 then he concludes his memoires in melancholy and disjointed fenten- 
 ces thus, — Obfervations on my indifferent health — and weaknefs of 
 fight encreafing-— and lofs of noble friends, and the encouragement 
 from them lefs and lefs daily — this year — and worfe in appearance 
 begins with 1752." 
 
 He loft his friends-, but his piety, mildnefs, and ingenuity never 
 forfook him. He laboured almoft to the laft, follicitous to leave a 
 decent competence to a wife, with whom he had lived many years in 
 tender harmony. His volumes of the works of Hollar and the 
 Simons, I have mentioned here and elfewhere. The reft of his 
 works will appear in the enfuing lift. 
 
 He died July 24th. 1756, and was buried in the cloyfters of Weft- 
 minfter-abbey on the 30th. following, with this epitaph, 
 
 Here lyes the body of George Vertue 
 
 Late engraver 
 
 And fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 
 
 Who was born in London 1684, 
 
 And departed this life on the 24th of July 1756. 
 
 With 
 
The Life of Mr. George Vertue, 13 
 
 With manners gentle, and a gratefull heart. 
 And all the genius of the Graphic Art, 
 His fame fhall each fucceeding artift own 
 Longer by far than monuments of ftone. 
 
 Two other friends — not better poets indeed, — inferted the fol- 
 lowing lines in the papers, on viewing his monument: 
 
 Proud artift, ceafe thofe deeds to paint on ftone, 
 Which far above the praife of man have flione: 
 Why mould your fkill fo vainly thus be fpent, 
 For Vertue ne'er can need a monument. 
 
 Another, 
 
 Troubled in mind and prefs'd with grievous fmart, 
 Her happy manfions left the Graphic Art, 
 And thus to fcience fpoke; " what ! can it be? 
 Is famous Vertue dead ? — then fo are we." 
 
 Thefe are well-meant hyperboles on a man who never ufed any, he 
 ^vas fimple, modeft, and fcrupulous; fo fcrupulous, that it gave a pe- 
 culiar flownefs to his delivery; he never uttered his opinion haftily, 
 nor haftily affented to that of others. As he grudged no time, no in- 
 duftry, to inform himfelf, he thought they might beftow a little too, if 
 they wiftied to know. Ambitious to diftinguifti himfelf, he took but 
 one method, application. Acquainted with all the arts practiced by 
 hisprofeffion,toulher their productions to the public, he made ufeof 
 none. He only lamented he did not deferve fuccefs, or if he mined it 
 
 Q/j when 
 
14 The Life of Mr. George Vertue.' 
 
 when deferved. It was fome merit that carried fuch balhfull Integrity 
 as far as it did go. 
 
 He was a ftricT: Roman Catholic ; yet even thofe principles could 
 not warp his attachment to his art, nor prevent his making it fubfer- 
 vient to the glory of his country. I mention this as a Angular in- 
 ftance. His partiality to Charles the firft did not indeed clafh much 
 with his religion ; but who has preferved more monuments of queert 
 Elizabeth? Whatever related to her (lory he treated with a patriot 
 fondnefs ; her heroes were his. His was the firft thought of engrav- 
 ing the tapeftry in the Houfe of Lords; his a project of giving a fe- 
 ries of proteftant bifliops-— for his candour could reconcile toleration 
 and popery. 
 
 His collection of books, prints, miniatures and drawings were fold 
 by auction May 17th. 1757. Lord Befborough bought there his 
 copies in water-colours of the kings of England, as I did a large piece 
 of Philip and Mary from the original at Woburn, which he intended 
 for his ferits of hiftoric prints; there too 1 purchafed his drawings 
 taken from Holbein; and fince his death, the beft piece he ever paint- 
 ed, a fmall whole length of the queen of Scots in water-colours. 
 
 The length of this account I flatter myfelf will be excufed, as it 
 contains a few curious particulars, which are not foreign to the fub- 
 iedt, and which concomitantly illuftrate the hiftory of arts. 
 
 LIST 
 
O P 
 
 VERTUE's WORKS. 
 
 QMALL head of the duchefs of Marlborough ; the firft prinC 
 he publifhed. 
 
 The rat-catcher's head from Vifcher, his fecond print. 
 
 Zephyrus in the clouds, with two Englifb verfes. 
 
 William prince of Orange, from Vandyck, fmall half length 5 
 mezzotinto. 
 
 Sleeping Venus, with three etrpids and a fatyr, from Coypel. 
 
 Royal Portraits. Class i. 
 
 Four fmall plates of kings, from "William I. to George I. inclu- 
 fively. 
 
 The fame in one plate. 
 
 Large fet of heads of the kings, for Rapin. Smaller fet, ditto. 
 
 Monuments of the Confeflbr r Edward I. Henry V. Henry VII. 
 Edward VI. for the feries of royal tombs. 
 
 Richard II. whole length, from the painting in Weftminfter-abbey. 
 
 Queen 
 
2 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 Queen Elizabeth, profile, from Ifaac Oliver. 
 
 Ditto, from Milliard, in Hearn's Camden's Elizabetha. 
 
 Mary queen of Scots, from Zucchero, to the knees. 
 
 A head of the fame, fmaller. 
 
 The fame queen, fmall, from the picture at St. James's. 
 
 Ditto, engraved on gold in an oval, from Dr. Meade's picture, 
 finely executed. 
 
 Small oval of the king and .queen of Bohemia, and one of their 
 children. 
 
 Charles I. and his queen, holding a chaplet of laurel, from Van- 
 dyck. Voerft engraved the fame picture. 
 
 Queen Anne, large oval, after Kneller. 
 
 Ditto, crowned, the royal arms at top; the medals of her reiga 
 round the frame. 
 
 King George I. very large, 17 15* 
 
 Ditto, a lefs fize, 171 8, better. 
 
 Ditto, fmaller. 
 
 Ditto, with fiourifhes, for fome patent, or writing-book. 
 
 George prince of Wales, large. 
 
 The princefs of Wales, fmaller. 
 
 The fame when queen, large. 
 
 Ditto, with an angel bringing a crown ; from Amiconi. 
 
 Frederick prince of Wales, in a tied perriwig and armour, front 
 Boit. 
 
 Ptincefs Anne. 
 
 William duke of Cumberland, collar of the Bath, from Jarvis. 
 
 Princefs Mary, holding a bafket of flowers; mezzotinto, very- 
 bad. My proof has no infcription. 
 
 CLASS 
 
List of Vertue's Works. 3 
 
 Class 2. Noblemen. 
 
 William Seymour duke of Somerfet. 
 
 Henry Somerfet duke of Beaufort. 
 
 ■William Cavendifri duke of Newcaftle, for the illuftrious heads. 
 
 John duke of Marlborough. 
 
 John duke of Buckingham. 
 
 Philip duke of Wharton, from Jarvis, no infcription. 
 
 Lionel duke of Dorfet, in robes of the garter. 
 
 Ditto, in coronation robes, white ftaff. 
 
 Henry Howard earl of Surrey, with many devices. 
 
 Ditto, fmaller, copied from Hollar. 
 
 Francis earl of Bedford, for the illuftrious heads. 
 
 Edward earl of Dorfet, ditto. 
 
 Heneage earl of Winchelfea; blank fhield, coronet and fupporters, 
 no infcription ; nor any crofs ftrokes in the figure. 
 
 Robert Dudley earl of Leicefter.l 
 
 Edward earl of Clarendon. > Small heads. 
 
 Edward earl of Sandwich. J 
 
 The earl of Derwentwater. 
 
 Edward earl of Orford. 
 
 Charles earl of Halifax. 
 
 Robert earl of Oxford, garter robes, white ftaff, one of his laft 
 and worft works. ] 
 
 Edward earl of Oxford, fitting, in night-gown and cap ; many 
 pieces of his colle&ion round him. 
 
 Ditto in his robes, whole length. 
 
 R r Thomas 
 
4 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 Thomas earl of Strafford. 
 Horace lord Vere. 
 John lord Somers. 
 William lord Burleigh. 
 
 'o' 
 
 Class 3. Ladies. 
 
 Sarah duchefs of Somerfet, whole length. 
 
 Elizabeth countefs of Shrewfbury. 
 
 Dorothy countefs of Sunderland. 
 
 The lady Morton. 
 
 Henrietta countefs of Orrery. 
 
 Frances lady. Carteret. 1 
 
 Sophia countefs Granville. j Wives of J ohn earl Granville. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Halyburton, infcriptions in Latin and Englifh. 
 
 Lady M. Cavendifh Harley, for the fmall edition of Waller. 
 
 Class 4. Bishops. 
 
 Archbifhop Warham, for the illuftrious heads.] 
 Ditto, fmall. 
 
 Archbifhop Cranmer; with a book in both hands, aet. §y. By 
 miftake the infcription and arms give it for Parker. 
 
 Archbifhop Parker, books before him and on each fide, fine. 
 
 Ditto, book in one hand, ftaff in the other. 
 
 Ditto, fmaller, and only the head. 
 
 Archbifhop Whitgift, book on a cufhion before him. 
 
 Ditto, fmaller, head. 
 
 Archbifhop 
 
List oFVertue's Works. 5 
 
 Archbifhop Grindal. 
 
 Archbifhop Bancroft. 
 
 Archbifhop Tillotfon, fitting in a velvet chair, fine. 
 
 John Potter, bifhop of Oxford. 
 
 Ditto, when archbifhop, in a chair, holding a book on his knee, 
 
 Francis Godwin, bifhop of Landaff. 
 
 Archbifhop Blackburne. 
 
 James Sharp, archbifhop of St. Andrews. 
 
 John Jewel, bifhop of Salifbury. 
 
 John Robinfon, bifhop of London. 
 
 Edmund Gibfon, bifhop of London. 
 
 The fame print, but with books and charters on each fide of the 
 arms. 
 
 Edward Chandler, bifhop of Durham. 
 
 Richard Fox, bifhop of Winchefter." Joannes Corvus Flandrus 
 faciebat. 
 
 Hugh Latimer, bifhop of Worcefter. 
 
 William Talbot, bifhop of Salifbury. 
 
 Gilbert Burnet, bifhop of Salifbury. 
 
 Ofspring Blackhall, bifhop of Exeter. 
 
 William Loyd, bifhop of Worcefter, fitting in a chair in his library, 
 one of his moft capital works. 
 
 Ditto, a large head. 
 
 Francis Gaftrell, bifhop of Chefter. 
 
 Richard Smalbroke, bifhop of Litchfield and Coventry, 
 
 George Smalridge, bifhop of Briftol. 
 
 Francis Atterbury, bifhop of Rochefter. Two, with fome little 
 difference in the inferiptions. 
 
 Thomas 
 
6 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 Thomas Ken, bifhop of Bath and Wells. Three different prints. 
 
 Philip BifTe, bifhop of Hereford. 
 
 Thomas Tanner, bifhop of St. Afaph. 
 
 Martin Benfon, bifhop of Glocefter. 
 
 Benjnmin Hoadley, re&or of St. Peter Poor (afterwards bifhop of 
 Winchefter) 
 Thomas Wilfon, bifhop of Sodor and Man. 
 
 Class 5. Clergymen. 
 
 John Spencer, dean of Ely. 
 
 Laurence Echard. 
 
 Thomas Biffe, S. T. P. 
 
 William Lupton, S. T. D. 
 
 George Brown, A. M. 
 
 Mr. Kettlewdl. 
 
 George TrofTe, V. D. M. 
 
 Effigies Authoris, arms. It is 
 Burnet of the Charter-houfe. 
 Alio, (a print of) The facred 
 theory of the earth; (accord- 
 ing to his fyftem.) 
 
 Mr. Ifaac Mills. 
 
 Wiliiam Whifton. 
 
 E. T. Epifc. Ofs. defignatus. It 
 
 is Edward Ter.ifon. 
 Matthew Henry, V. D. M. 
 
 Dr. Conyers Middleton. This 
 was defigned for his works, 
 but was rejected, as Vertue's 
 eyes had begun to fail. 
 
 John Barwick, dean of St. Paul's. 
 
 John Gilbert, canon of Exeter. 
 
 R. Cudworth, D. D. 
 
 Ifaac Watts, V. D. M. 
 
 Another, D. D. with a book in 
 his hand. 
 
 Dr. Swift. 
 
 Another, fmaller, in a night- 
 gown. 
 
 Another, ftill fmaller : under it, 
 Non Pareil. 
 
 Humphrey Gower, mailer of St. 
 John's Coll. 
 
 John 
 
List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 John Gale, M. A. and D. P. John Flamfteed. 
 
 Daniel Burgefs. 
 John Edwards, S. T. P. 
 Lewis Atterbury, L. L. D. 
 John Harris, S. T. P. 
 Richard Fiddes, S. S. T. P. 
 Mr. Hal! (executed) no name. 
 
 Arms. 
 Montrofe, no name, cap, band, 
 
 picked beard. 
 John Gill, S. T. P. 
 Humphrey Prideaux, dean of 
 
 Norwich. 
 John Owen, dean of Chrift- 
 
 church. 
 Mr. Thomas Stackhoufe. 
 Ralph Taylor, S. T. P. 
 Henry Sacheverell. 
 John Wefley, two of them, 
 
 1742, 1745- 
 John Srrype. 
 
 Three. The 
 
 Richard Bentley. 
 
 Joieph Spence. 
 
 Samuel Clarke, 
 
 two fmalleft have no differ- 
 ence, but that to one is add- 
 ed Dna. Hoadley pinx. Per- 
 haps the other was only a 
 proof. 
 
 Mr. Spinckes. © 
 
 Mr. Henry Grove. 
 
 Robert South, S. T. P. 
 
 John Piggott, V. D. M. 
 
 Robert Mofs, dean of Ely, 
 
 William Broome. 
 
 A. Blackwall, M. A. 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Stennet. 
 
 Edmund Calamy, D. D. 
 
 Thomas Bradbury. 
 
 John Laurence, A. M. 
 
 Class 6. Chancellors, Judges, Lawyers. 
 
 Sir Thomas More. 
 Sir Nicholas Bacon. 
 Sir Francis Bacon. 
 Tomb of the fame, 
 
 Sir Thomas Parker. 
 The fame, when earl of Mac- 
 clesfield. 
 Sir Peter King, lord chief juftice\ 
 
 S f The 
 
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 List of Vert 
 
 The fame, when chancellor. 
 
 Sir Matthew Hale. 
 
 John lord Fortefcue. 
 
 Sir John Willes. 
 
 Sir Robert Eyre. 
 
 Sir Robert Raymond. 
 
 Henry Powle, fpeaker and maf- 
 
 ter of the rolls. 
 Sir Jofeph Jekyll, mailer of the 
 
 rolls. 
 The fame, fitting in a chair, fine. 
 John Verney, matter of the 
 
 rolls, fine. 
 James Reynolds, chief baron. 
 Sir James Steuart, lord advocate. 
 Sir John Comyns, chief baron. 
 Sir Francis Page, baron of the 
 
 Exchequer. 
 
 ue's Works. 
 
 The fame, juftice of the KingV 
 bench. 
 
 Sir John Blencowe, juftice of 
 the Common-pleas. 
 
 Robert Price, baron of the Ex- 
 chequer. 
 
 Sir James Mountague, ditto. 
 
 Alexander Denton, juft. of Com- 
 mon-pleas. 
 
 Sir Laurence Carter, baron of 
 Exchequer. 
 
 William Peere Williams, efq ; 
 Thomas Craig of Riccartoun. 
 Thomas Vernon, efq j 
 Lord-keeper North. 
 Sir Dudley North. 
 Roger North, efq -, 
 John Bridges, efq ; 
 
 Class 7. Ministers, and Gentlemen. 
 
 Sir Francis Walfingham. Thomas Harley, efq •, of Bram- 
 
 Sir Walter Raleigh. ton-bryan. 
 
 Another, fmall. Sir Robert Harley, knight of 
 
 Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. the Bath. 
 
 Sir Francis Drake, large, poor- Sir Edward Harley, ditto. 
 ]y done. 
 
 Edward 
 
List of Vert 
 
 Edward Harley, efq; auditor of 
 the Impreft. 
 
 Sir Ralph Winwood. 
 
 William Trumbii, efq; envoy to 
 Bruffels. 
 
 Sir William Trumbull, fecretary 
 of ftate. 
 
 John Thurloe, efq ; 
 
 Sir Edward Nicholas, 
 
 Sir Thomas Roe. 
 
 James Craggs, efq; fenr. 
 
 Lord Aubrey Beauclerk, poorly- 
 done. 
 
 Sir Watkyn Williams Wynn. 
 
 Sir Thomas Rawlinfon, lord- 
 mayor. 
 
 Francis Mundy. 
 
 Sir Philip Sydenham. 
 
 Mr. Parker. 
 
 James Gardiner, A. M, 
 
 Henry Barham, efq; 
 
 ue's Works. 9 
 
 A Gentleman, in a cravat, Ioofe 
 cloak, arms, label above him 9 
 no infcription. 
 
 John Graves, gent, aged 102, 
 1616. 
 
 Richard Graves of Michleton, 
 efq; d. 1669. 
 
 Richardus Graves de Michleton. 
 -ob. 1731. 
 
 Monument of Mrs. Eleanor 
 Graves, &c. 
 
 Samuel Dale, M. L. 
 
 John Morley, efq-, 
 
 James Puckle, fmall. 
 
 John Bagford. My proof is on 
 Indian reddifh paper. Ver- 
 tue was fond of printing on 
 papers of various colours. 
 
 John Murray of Sacomb, anti- 
 quary. 
 
 Peter Barwick, 
 
 Charles II. 
 Dr. Ratcliffe. 
 Dr. Turner. 
 
 Another, fmaller. 
 
 Class 8. Physicians, &c. 
 
 phyfician to 
 
 Thomas Fuller, M. D„ 
 Thomas Willis, M. D. 
 John Friend, M. D. 
 John Marten, furgeon. 
 Ambrofe Godfrey, chymift. 
 
 Class 
 
30 
 
 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 Class. 9. Founders, Benefactors, &c 
 
 Hugh Price, founder of Baliol- 
 
 college. 
 Sir Thomas Grefham. 
 Statue of ditto. 
 Tomb of ditto. 
 Edward Colfton, efq; 
 Sir Hugh Middleton, fine. 
 
 Dr. Colet. 
 
 Buft of ditto. 
 
 Thomas Sutton. 
 
 Tomb of ditto. 
 
 View of the charter-houfe. 
 
 William Lancaster, S. T. P. 
 
 Class 10. Antiquaries, Authors, Ma- 
 thematicians. 
 
 William Lambard. 
 
 
 
 George Holmes. 
 
 John Stowe. 
 
 
 
 Sir Philip Sidney, with many 
 
 Sir Robert Cotton. 
 
 
 
 devices. 
 
 John Selden. 
 
 
 
 Small head of ditto. 
 
 Sir James Ware. 
 
 
 
 The fame, whole length, fitting 
 
 Thomas Hearne. Two dirTe; 
 
 •ent. 
 
 under a tree. 
 
 Robert Nelfon. 
 
 
 
 Robert Boyle, two of them. 
 
 Walter Moyle, efq; 
 
 
 
 Mr. Steel, in a cap. 
 
 William Baxter. 
 
 
 
 The fame when fir Richard, in 
 
 Richard Baxcer, prefixed 
 
 to 
 
 Ca- 
 
 a wig. 
 
 lamy's Life of Baxter. 
 
 
 
 Mr. Addifon, two : one has his 
 
 Mr. Wollafton. 
 
 
 
 arms. 
 
 Si- ir«ac Newton. 
 
 
 
 Edmund Halley. 
 
 Abraham Sharp. 
 
 
 
 Mr. John Freake. 
 
 TTlass 
 
List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 ii 
 
 Class- ii. Poets and Musicians. 
 
 Title-page to the fet of 12 poets, 
 in an ornamented border, with 
 lord Oxford's arms. 
 
 1. John Gower-f. 
 
 2. Geofry Chaucer. 
 
 3. Edmund Spencer. 
 
 4. William Shakefpeare. 
 
 5. Ben Johnfon. 
 
 6. Francis Beaumont. 
 
 7. John Fletcher. 
 
 8. John Milton. 
 
 9. Samuel Butler. 
 
 10. Abraham Cowley. 
 
 11. Edmund Waller. 
 
 12. John Dryden. 
 
 Geofry Chaucer, large, in oval 
 
 frame *. 
 Another, fmaller, verfes in old 
 
 a large ruff*. 
 
 Another, ftill lefs «. 
 
 Print of his tomb*. 
 
 A plate with feven fmall heads 
 of Shakefpeare, Johnfon, Beau- 
 mont, Fletcher, Otway, Dry- 
 den, Wycherley *. 
 
 Ben Johnfon, fmall *. 
 
 Francis Beaumont, fmall*. 
 
 Buff of John Milton*. 
 
 Another, young; two Latin 
 verfes * 
 
 Another, old ; two Greek ver- 
 fes*. 
 
 The fame, fix Englifh verfes *. 
 
 Abraham Cowley, fmall *. 
 
 Butler, for Grey's Hudibras *. 
 
 Waller, for the fmall edition of 
 his works*. 
 
 character *. 
 
 A plate with five fmall heads of John Dryden, large *. 
 
 Chaucer, Milton, Butler, Cow- A fmall one *. 
 
 ley, Waller*. Sir John Suckling. 
 
 Edmund Spencer, fmall*. Nicholas Rowe. 
 
 William Shakefpeare, fmall, in His tomb. 
 
 Tc 
 
 Thomas 
 
 t Tbofe numbered are the fet. 
 
 Thofe with an aflerifk do not belong to it. 
 
12 
 
 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 Thomas Durfey. 
 
 Allan Ramfay. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Haywood. 
 
 William Croft, Dr. of mufic. 
 
 A head of John Milton, for a 
 
 vignette *. 
 Another, very different, set. 42. 
 
 At one corner lightning ; at 
 
 the other, the ferpent and 
 
 apple *. 
 Two others, fmaller *. 
 Another, fmaller *. 
 
 Trivet, an old poet. A monk 
 
 in an initial letter. 
 John Lydgate. 
 Lord Lanldown. 
 Matthew Prior, fitting in a 
 
 chair. 
 Mr. Pope, in a long wig. 
 Ditto, fmall, in a cap. 
 Arthur Johnfon. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. 
 Mr. John Robmion, organift. 
 
 Class .12. Foreigners. 
 
 Hernan Cortez. 
 
 Francifcus Junius, from an etch- 
 ing of Vandyck. 
 The fame, compleatly engraved. 
 Balthazar Caftiglione. 
 Rapin Thoyras. 
 Job Patriarcha. 
 
 1. William prince of Orange -f. 
 
 2. Maurice prince of Orange. 
 
 3. Jacobus Arminius. 
 
 4. Simon Epifcopius. 
 
 5. Johannes Bogerman. 
 
 \ The eleven beads numbered are a 
 
 6. Gerardus Vofiius. 
 
 7. Francifcus Gomarus. 
 
 8. Edwardus Poppius. 
 
 9. Gafpar Barlaeus. 
 
 10. Johannes Uttenbogaert. 
 
 11. Philip de Mornay. 
 Maphasus Barberinus, poftea Ur- 
 
 banus VIII. Papa. 
 Hieronymus Fracaftorius. 
 Cervantes. 
 Father Paul. 
 Profile of Auguftine Caracci. 
 
 Racine, 
 fet; 
 
List oFVertue's Works. 13 
 
 Racine. Marcus Hieronymus Vida. 
 
 Benedetti, finger. Charles XII. of Sweden. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Aaron. Philip V. king of Spain. 
 
 Pierre Varignon. Erafmus. 
 
 Blaife Pafcal. Antony Arnauld. 
 
 Archbifhop Fenelon. Charles Rollin. 
 
 Wenceflaus Hollar. Monfr. de St. Evremond, 
 
 Class 13. Historic Prints, and Prints 
 with two or more Portraits. 
 
 Henry VII. and his Queen, Henry VIII. and Jane Seymour. 
 
 Proceflion of queen Elizabeth to Hunfdon-houfe. 
 
 The tomb of lord Darnley, James I. when a child, earl and countefs 
 of Lenox, &c. praying by it. 
 
 Battle of Carberry-hill, at large, from a fmall view in the pre^ 
 ceding. 
 
 This was the firft number, publifhed with explanations. 
 
 Three children of Henry VII. 
 
 Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk and Mary queen of France. 
 
 Frances dutchefs of Suffolk, and Adrian Stoke, her fecond hufband* 
 
 Lady Jane Grey, with emblematic devices. 
 
 This was the fecond number publifhed in like manner* Vertue 
 intended to give fome other pictures, relative to the family of Tudor* 
 as Philip and Mary, from the picture at Woburn, which he had pur- 
 pofely copied in water colours j but he finifhed no more of that fef, 
 but the following, 
 
 Edward 
 
14 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 Edward VI. granting the palace of Bridewell, for an hofpkal. • 
 
 The Court of Wards •, with an explanation on a folio fheet. 
 
 Thomas earl of Arundel, his countefs and children: a plate done 
 for the duke of Norfolk, and never fold publicly. 
 
 Thomas earl of Strafford and his Secretary. 
 
 The earl of Strafford's three children. 
 
 A let of ten plates, containing the heads of Charles I. and the prin- 
 cipal fufferers in his caufe, with their characters beneath, from lord 
 Clarendon. 
 
 Thomas earl of Coningfby and his two daughters. 
 
 The family of Eliot of Port Eliot in Cornwall. 
 
 William duke of Portland, Margaret his duchefs, and lady Mary 
 Wortley. 
 
 Class 14. Tombs. 
 
 Tomb of John duke of Newcaftle in Weftminfter-abbey. 
 
 of Sophia marchionefs of Annandale. 
 
 - of Dr. Colet. 
 
 Buft of ditto. 
 
 Tomb of Dr. Young. 
 
 of Dryden. 
 
 ■* — of Thomas Watfon Wentworth. 
 
 Class. 15. Plans, Views, Churches, 
 Buildings, Sec. 
 
 Survey of the remains of Roman antiquity on the Wolds in York- 
 .fhire. 
 
 Ancient 
 
List of Vertue's •Works. 15 
 
 Ancient plan of London as it was in the beginning of queen Eliza- 
 beth's reign, on feveral fheets. 
 
 A furvey and ground plot of the palace of Whitehall. 
 
 Two plans for re-building London, propofed by fir Chriftopher 
 Wren, after the fire. 
 
 Two different by Mr. Evelyn. 
 
 Antiquse Etrunse pars orientalis. 
 
 Plan of a Roman military way in. Lancashire. 
 
 Lincoln's-inn-chapel. 
 
 Church of Bofton. 
 
 Plan and elevation of the fire- works in St. James's-park, April 27, 
 1749. 
 
 View of the fire-works at the duke of Richmond's at Whitehall, 
 May 15, 1749. 
 
 The gate-houfe or tower of Layer-Marney-hall in EfTex. 
 
 Three plates of Saxon antiquities, Waylandfmith, Ichenild-way Sec. 
 
 PerfpecT:ive view of a gothic font in the church of Worlingworth 
 in Suffolk. 
 
 Infide view of the chapel in London-bridge, Another plate with 
 the outfide and the bridge. 
 
 Small view of the cathedral at Exeter. 
 
 Ditto of St. Edmundfbury. 
 
 Part of the abbot's palace at ditto. 
 
 Ichnography of the church, ditto. 
 
 Eaft view of Bluntfham church in Huntingdonshire. 
 
 View of an ancient gateway, dedicated to Nicholas bifhop of Exeter. 
 
 View of London about 1 560. 
 
 North weft view of Gainfborough. 
 
 U u Small 
 
16 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 Small view of the theatre, printing-houfe, and Aflimolean mufeum 
 at Oxford. 
 
 View of Penlhurft'. 
 
 Infide of the abbey-church at Bath, drawn by J. Vertue, brother of 
 George. 
 
 Plan of the church of St. Martin. 
 
 Weft profpecl of ditto. 
 
 South profpecl; of ditto. 
 
 View of the Savoy. 
 
 A teflelated pavement difcovered at Stunsfield near Woodftock, 
 3712. 
 
 Extent of the fire of London, on two meets. 
 
 The ancient wooden church at Greenfteed in Eflex, &c. 
 
 Map of fome Roman garrifons. 
 
 Plan of a Roman camp. 
 
 Class 16. Coins, Medals, Busts, Seals, 
 Charters, Gems, and Shells. 
 
 Coin of Caraufius and his emprefs in brafs. 
 
 Plate of coins of Caraufius. 
 
 Ditto, and of other emperors. 
 
 Plate of coins with the crux viclorialis. 
 
 Medal of queen Caroline when princefs, a figure fitting on each fide. 
 
 Reverfe of a medal, legend, Refurges. 
 
 Plate of ancient Gallic coins, 
 
 Another of barbarous coins. 
 
 Medal of Leo. X. 
 
 Plate 1 . Egyptian figures, &c 
 
 Plate 
 
List of Vertue's Works, 17 
 
 Plate 2. Ditto. 
 
 Medal of George II. his queen, and children. 
 Heads of Virgil and Homer. 
 Smaller Homer. 
 
 Small head of Francifcus Junius. 
 Ditto of king Alfred. 
 Ditto of a pope. 
 
 Very fmall one of Caleb Danvers. 
 Buft of lord Turchetyl abbot of Crowland. 
 A buft found at York, in pofTeffion of Roger Gale. 
 An extract from Domefday, relating to the church of Hambyrie 
 in Wyrcefterfhire. 
 
 Seal in the ihape of a lozenge, an ox and a caftle. 
 
 Seal of Adam de Newmarche. 
 
 Tally of Thomas Godefire. 
 
 Seal of dean and chapter of Hereford. 
 
 Two others. 
 
 Seal of George Coke bifhop of Hereford. 
 
 of Robert Benet bifhop of Hereford, 
 
 of Savari de Boun. A crefcent. 
 
 Another, fame arms. 
 
 Another feal with arms of Bohun. 
 
 Another. Another, a knight on horfeback, 
 
 Seal of William Fitz-Oth. 
 
 Seal to the furrender of an abbey. 
 
 Seal of St. John Clerkenwell. 
 
 Seal of Thomas bifhop of Elphiny 
 
 Seal of bifhop Egidius. 
 
 Arms 
 
18 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 Arms of queen Elizabeth, as a (lamp. 
 Ditto of James I. 
 
 Precept of king Henry to the iheriff of Nottingham. 
 A charter and imperfect, feal, parts only of a horfeman and of 
 another figure. 
 
 Reprefentation of the pontific Tiara. 
 
 Jewels in the collection of Margaret duchefs of Portland, 3 plates. 
 
 Five fhells, ditto. 
 
 Class 17. Frontispieces, Head and 
 Tail-pieces. 
 
 Frontifpiece to Pline fur POr l'Argent. George II. and queen 
 Caroline at top. 
 
 A bifhop giving a writing to Hibernia, with other figures. Seems 
 to relate to a charity-fchool. 
 
 A man writing on a tomb by moonlight; for Dr. Young's Night- 
 thoughts. 
 
 Minerva raifing a woman •, Refurges. Vignette. 
 
 Head-piece for Thurloe's State-papers. Thurloe's head, &c. 
 
 A perfon offering a book to James I. Faith (landing by him with 
 Holy Bible, &c. I believe for father Paul. 
 
 Aproceffion, with the fign of the tabard-, for one of Chaucer's tales. 
 
 A temple with books and emblematic figures -, vivitur ingenio. 
 
 Frontifpiece to the auction book of the Harleian collection. 
 
 A head-piece with a view of Stonehenge, &c. 
 
 Vignerre to Spence's Polymetis. 
 
 A man 
 
List oFVertue's Works. ig 
 
 A man digging, with Latin mottoes, fmall oval. 
 
 Infide of a church, and a church-yard; head-piece. 
 
 The Annunciation, ditto. 
 
 Many plates for the quarto edition of Waller. 
 
 The Ad Lectorem for lord Burlington's Palladio. 
 
 Frontifpiece to Hiftoria Casleftis. 
 
 Six initial letters, N. 2 Ps. S. 2 Ts. 
 
 Set of head-pieces for Homer. 
 
 Frontifpiece to Fenton's Mariamne. 
 
 Ditto to Smith's prints from Titian. 
 
 Class 18. Miscellaneous. 
 
 Arms of the Antiquarian Society at Spalding, engraved and mez- 
 sotinto. 
 
 Arms of Blount, 
 
 Conundrum for Henny's right tobacco, a toe, a back, and O. 
 
 Benefit ticket for Mademoifelle Violette. 
 
 Print of Richard Dickinfon governor of Scarborough Spaw, with 
 verfes. Poor. 
 
 Large print of David' Bruce, with account of his diftrefijes at Sea 3 - 
 As ill done as the former. 
 
 Two plates of a mummy. 
 
 Two genealogic trees, intituled, Procefius & Series Legis. 
 
 Plate to put-in lady Oxford's books. 
 
 Infcription to Neptune and Minerva, 
 
 Head of Silenus, a bafrelief. 
 
 Liber & Libera, ditto. 
 
 X x A plate 
 
20 List of Vertue's Works. 
 
 A plate of fome Rptnan antiquities. 
 
 The weftern profped of Bear'sden-hall in Surrey, a fatyrlc print. 
 
 Antiquity-hall, ditto. 
 
 An antique female figure with two faces, holding a fnake with two 
 heads. 
 
 Befides many plates for the Society of Antiquaries, publifhed in 
 their two volumes, and a feries of Oxford Almanacs for feveral years; 
 and perhaps fome plates which have not come to my knowledge. 
 
 OcT. 22d. 1762. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 INDEX 
 
N 
 
 O F 
 
 NAMES of ENGRAVERS, 
 
 Ranged according to the Times in which they lived. 
 
 THOMAS GEMINUS, p. 5. 
 Remigius Hogenbergh, 7. 
 Francis Hogenbergh, ib. 
 Humphrey Lhuyd, 8. 
 William Cunyngham, ib. 
 Ralph Aggas, 9. 
 Humphrey Cole, ir. 
 John Bettes, ib. 
 Chriftopher Switzer, ib. 
 William Rogers, 12. 
 Chriftopher Saxton, ib: 
 Nicholas Reynold, 13. 
 Auguftine Ryther, ib. 
 George Hoefnagle, ib. 
 Theodore de Brie, 14. 
 Robert Adams, 15. 
 Reginald Elftracke, 16, 
 Francis Delaram, 1 8. 
 
 Crifpin Pafs, 2r. 
 Crifpin Pafs j unr. 24. 
 William Pafs, 25. 
 Magdalen Pafs, 28. 
 Simon Pafs, ib, 
 John Payne, 31. 
 Joannes Barra, 33. 
 John Norden, 34. 
 Thomas Porter, ib. 
 Charles Whitwell, ib. 
 C. Boel, 35. 
 William Hole, ib. 
 Jodocus Hondius, ib. 
 Henry Hondius, 36. 
 A. Bloom, ib. 
 Thomas Cockfon, 37. 
 Peter Stent, ib. 
 Thomas Cartwright, 38. 
 
 William 
 
INDEX. 
 
 William Dolle, 39. 
 
 Deodate, ib. 
 
 R. Meighan, ib. 
 Thomas Cecill, ib. 
 Robert Vaugban, 40. 
 J. Hulett, 41. 
 William Marfhall, 42. 
 G. Glover, 43. 
 Henry Peacham, 44. 
 Robert de Voerft, ib. 
 Luke Vofterman, 46. 
 Wenceflas Hollar, 48. 
 Martin Droefhout, 49. 
 H. Stock, ib. 
 H. Vanderborcht, ib. 
 T. Slater, ib. 
 William DclfF, 50. 
 George Giffbrd, ib. 
 Thomas Crofs, ib, 
 S. Savery, 51. 
 J. Goddard, ib. 
 J. Chantry, ib. 
 J. Dickfon, 52. 
 A. Hertocks, ib. 
 F. H. Van Hove, ib, 
 — — Rotermans, 53, 
 Francis Barlow, ib. 
 R. Gaywood, 54. 
 
 Dudley, 55. 
 
 ■ Carter, ib. 
 
 Robert Pricke,. ib. 
 
 Francis Place, 55. 
 
 J. Savage, 58. 
 
 William Lodge, 591 
 
 William Sherwin, 61. 
 
 Jbfeph Nutting, 62. 
 
 William Faithorne, 63. 
 
 William Faithorne junr. J$. 
 
 John Fillian, 76. 
 
 Peter Lombart, ib. 
 James Gammon, 78. 
 Robert Thacker, ib. 
 
 Morgan, ib. 
 
 William Skillman, ib. 
 John Dunftall, ib. 
 J. Brown, 79. 
 Prince Rupert, ib. 
 Wallerant Vaillant, 84= 
 John Evelyn, '85. 
 David Loggan, 89. 
 Peter Williamfon,, 93. 
 Abraham Blooteling, ib, 
 Gerard Valck, 94. 
 Edward le Davis, ib. 
 William Lightfoot, 95, 
 Michael Burghers, ib. 
 Peter Vanderbank, 96. 
 Nicholas Yeates, 99. 
 John Collins, ib. 
 R. Collins, junr. ib. 
 William Clarke, ib. 
 John Clarke, ib^ 
 
 R. Tomp- 
 
INDEX. 
 
 R. Tompfon, roo. 
 Thomas Dudley, ib. 
 Paul Vanfomer, ib. 
 John Vanfomer, ioi. 
 Robert White, ib. 
 George White, no. 
 Arthur Soly, ib. 
 Hamlet Winftanley, ill. 
 
 •4 B urnford , 112. 
 
 Ifaac Oliver, ib. 
 John Drapentiere, ib. 
 William Elder, 113. 
 John Sturt, ib. 
 Robert Jackfon, ib. 
 Francis Bragge,. ib. 
 — — Lutterel, 114. 
 Ifaac Becket, 115. 
 John Smith, 116. 
 Simon Gribelin, 118. 
 Sir Nicholas Dorigny, 1 19. 
 Charles Dupuis, 122. 
 Claude du Bofc, ib. 
 ■ Beauvais, ib. 
 
 Lewis du Guernier, 123. 
 George Bickham, ib. 
 S. Coignard, ib. 
 T. Johnfon, 124. 
 — — Kip, ib. 
 George King, ib. 
 Daniel King, ib. 
 S, Nichols, 125. 
 
 Jofeph Simpfon, 125. 
 Peter Van Gunft, ib. 
 Robert Williams, 126. 
 W. Wilfon, ib. 
 Michael Vandergutch, ib. 
 John Vandergutch, 127. 
 Claud David, ib. 
 • Chereau, junr. ib. 
 Bernard Lens, 128. 
 Samuel Moore, 129. 
 
 * Scotin, ib. 
 
 Mr. Englifh, ib. 
 Henry Hulfberg, 130. 
 John Faber, ib. 
 John Faber, junr. ib. 
 Edward Kirkall, 131. 
 James Chrift. Le Blon, 132. 
 John Simon, 133. 
 L. Boitard, 134. 
 B. Baron, ib. 
 Henry Gravelot, 135. 
 John Pine, ib. 
 Arthur Pond, 136. 
 Henry Fletcher, 137. 
 Carey Creed, ib. 
 Jofeph Wagner, ib. 
 Thomas Prefton, ib. 
 John Laguerre, 138. 
 Peter Fourdriniere, ib. 
 John Green, ib. 
 
 Yy 
 
 INDEX 
 
INDEX 
 
 O F 
 
 NAMES of ENGRAVERS, 
 
 Ranged alphabetically. 
 
 DAMS, ROBERT, p. 15. 
 Aggas, Ralph, 9. 
 
 B. 
 
 Barlow, Francis, 53. 
 Baron, B. 134. 
 Barra, John, 33. 
 Beauvais, , 122. 
 
 Becket, Ifaac, 115. 
 Bettes, John, II. 
 Bickham, George, 123. 
 Blon, J. Chriftopher le, 132. 
 Bloom, A. 36. 
 Blooteling, Abr. 93. 
 Boel, C. 35. 
 Boitard, L. 134. 
 
 Bofc, Claude du, 122. 
 Bragge, Francis, 114. 
 Brie, Theodore de, 14. 
 Brown, J. "jq 
 Burghers, Michael, 95. 
 Burnford, , 112. 
 
 Carter, , 55. 
 
 Cartwright, Thomas, 38. 
 Cecill, Thomas, 39. 
 Chantry, J. 51. 
 Chereau, 127. 
 Clarke, John, 99. 
 Clarke, William, ib. 
 Cockfon, Thomas, 37. 
 Coignard, S. 123. 
 
 Cofy 
 
/ N 
 
 Cole, Humphrey, n. 
 Collins, John, 99. 
 Collins, Richard, ib. 
 Creed, Carey, 137. 
 Crofs, Thomas, 50. 
 Cunyngham, William, 8. 
 
 D. 
 
 David, Claud, 127. 
 DavL, Edward le, 94. 
 Delaram, Francis, 18. 
 Delff, William, 50. 
 
 Deodate, , 39. 
 
 Dickfon, J. 52. 
 Dolle, William, 39. 
 Doxigny, Sir Nicholas, ng„ 
 Drapentiere, John, 112. 
 Droefhout, Martin, 49. 
 
 Dudley, , 55. 
 
 Dudley, Thomas, 100. 
 Dunftall, John, 78. 
 Dupuis, Charles, 122. 
 
 E. 
 
 Elder, William, 113. 
 Elftracke, Reginald, 16. 
 Englifh, Mr. 129. 
 Evelyn, John, 85. 
 
 F. 
 
 Faber, John, 130. 
 Faber, John, junr. ib. 
 
 d e x. 
 
 Faithorne, William, 63. 
 Faithorne, William, junr. 75. 
 Fiffian, John, 76. 
 Fletcher, Henry, 137. 
 Fourdriniere, Peter, 138. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gammon, James, 78. 
 Gaywood, R. 54. 
 Geminus, Thomas, 5. 
 Gifford, George, 50. 
 G'.over, G. 43. 
 Goddard, J. 51. 
 Gravelot, Henry, 135. 
 Green, John, 138. 
 Gribelin, Simon, 118. 
 Guernier, Lewis du, 123, 
 
 H. 
 
 Hertocks, A. 52. 
 Hoefnagle, George, 13. 
 Hogenbergh, Francis, 7. 
 Hogenbergh, Remigius, ib. 
 Hole, William, 35. 
 Hollar, Wenceflas, 48. 
 Hondius, Henry, 36. 
 Hondius, Jodocus, 35. 
 Hulett, J. 41. 
 Hulfberg, Henry, 130. 
 
 J- 
 
 Jackfon, Robert, 114. 
 Johnfon, T. 124. 
 
 King, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 K. 
 
 King, Daniel, 124. 
 King, George, ib. 
 
 Kip, , ib. 
 
 Kii kail, Edward, 131. 
 
 Laguerre, John, 138. 
 Lens, Bernard, 128. 
 Lightfoot, William, 95. 
 Lodge, William, 59. 
 Loggaii, David, 89. 
 Lonibart, Peter, 76. 
 Lhuyd, Humphrey, 8. 
 Lutterel, , 114. 
 
 M. 
 
 Marfhall, William, 42. 
 Meighan, R. 39. 
 Moore, Samuel, 129. 
 Morgan, , 78. 
 
 N. 
 Nichols, S. 125. 
 Norden, John, 34. 
 Nutting, Jofeph, 62. 
 
 O. 
 
 Oliver, Ifaac, : 12. 
 
 P. 
 
 Pafs, Crifpin, 21. 
 
 Pafs, Crifpin, junr. 24. 
 Pals, Magdalen, 28. 
 Pals, Simon, ib. 
 Pafs, William, 25. 
 Payne, John, 31. 
 Peacham, Henrr, 44. 
 Pine, John, 135. 
 Place, Francis, 55. 
 Pond, Arthur, 13O. 
 Porter, Thomas, 34. 
 Prefton, Thomas, 137, 
 Pricke, Robert, 55. 
 
 . R. 
 
 Reynold, Nicholas, 13. 
 Rogers, William, 12. 
 
 Rotermans, , 53. 
 
 Rupert, Prince, 79. 
 Ryther, Auguftine, 13. 
 
 8. 
 Savage, J. 58. 
 
 Saverv, S. 51. 
 
 Saxton, Chriftopher, 12, 
 
 Scot in, , 129. 
 
 Sherwin, William, 61. 
 
 Simon, John, 133. 
 
 Simp.on, Jofeph., 125. 
 
 Skillman, Willianj, ^S. 
 
 Slater, T. 49. 
 
 Smi:h, John, 116. 
 
 Soiy, Arthur, no. 
 
 Stan, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Stent, Peter, 37. 
 Stock, H. 49. 
 Sturt, John, 113. 
 Switzer, Chriftopher, II. 
 
 T. 
 
 Thacker, Robert, 78. 
 Tompfon, R. 100. 
 
 V. 
 
 Vaillant, Wallerant, 84. 
 Valck, Gerard, 94. 
 VanJerbank, Peter, 96. 
 Vanderborcht, H. 49. 
 Vandergutch, John, 127. 
 Vandergutch, Michael, 126. 
 Van, Gunft, Peter, 125. 
 Van Hove, F. H. 52. 
 
 Vanfomer, John, 10 r. 
 Vanfomer, Paul, 100. 
 Voerft, Robert de, 44. 
 Voiterman, Luke, 46. 
 Vaughan, Robert, 40. 
 
 W. 
 Wagner, Jofeph, 137. 
 White, George, no. 
 White, Robert, 101. 
 Whitwell, Charles, 34. 
 Williams, Robert, 126. 
 Williamfon, Peter, 93. 
 Wilfon, W, 126. 
 Winftanley, Hamlet, in. 
 
 y. 
 
 Yeates, Nicholas, 99. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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